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((Refimprove|date=September 2008))
"'''Had I but known'''" is a form of prolepsis or [[foreshadowing]] that hints at some looming disaster in which the [[first-person narrator]] laments their course of action which precipitates some or other unfortunate series of actions. 

Classically, the narrator never makes explicit the nature of the mistake until both the narrator and the reader have realized the consequence of the error. If done well, this [[literary device]] can add suspense or [[dramatic irony]]; if overdone, it invites comparison of the story to [[Victorian literature|Victorian]] [[melodrama]] and sub-standard [[popular fiction]].((citation needed|date=June 2015))

The foreshadowing may be distinguished between "advance notice":<ref name="Genette">[[Gérard Genette|Genette, Gérard]] (1980). ''Narrative Discourse'', p.77 and 75. cited in Rzepka (2005), p.20.</ref> for example, "Had I but known then what I know now, I would never have set foot on Baron von Rotschnitzel's private yacht", or the more subtle "advance mention":<ref name="Genette"/> "a 'simple marker without anticipation' intended to acquire significance later in the narrative, through [[analepsis|analeptic]] recovery (75).' [in other words:]...clues"<ref name="Rzepka"/>

The phrase is used to refer to a group of Golden Age [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] writers, mostly female, who wrote novels characterized by the use of the "had I but known" plot in which the narrator keeps key pieces of evidence from the police, apparently for the sole purpose of prolonging their work.((cn|date=March 2021)) 

The HIBK school is associated with the works of [[Mary Roberts Rinehart]],<ref name="Rzepka">Rzepka, Charles J. (2005). ''Detective fiction'', p.20. ((ISBN|0-7456-2942-3)).</ref> specifically ''[[The Circular Staircase]]'' (1908), in which "a middle-aged spinster is persuaded by her niece and nephew to rent a country house for the summer. The house they choose belonged to a bank defaulter who had hidden stolen securities in the walls. The gentle, peace-loving trio is plunged into a series of crimes solved with the help of the aunt. This novel is credited with being the first in the "Had-I-But-Known" school."<ref name="DET">Roseman, Mill ''et al.''  ''Detectionary''.  New York: Overlook Press, 1971.  ((ISBN|0-87951-041-2))</ref>

Other members of the HIBK school include [[Ethel Lina White]] and [[Lenore Glen Offord]].

The HIBK school was parodied by [[Ogden Nash]] in his poem "Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You":
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Had-I-But-Known narrators are the ones who hear a stealthy creak at midnight in the tower where the body lies, and, instead of locking their door or arousing the drowsy policeman posted outside their room, sneak off by themselves to the tower and suddenly they hear a breath exhaled behind them,

And they have no time to scream, they know nothing else till the men from the D.A.'s office come in next morning and find them.

...

And when the killer is finally trapped into a confession by some elaborate device of the Had I But Known-er some hundred pages later than if they hadn't held their knowledge aloof,

Why, they say, why Inspector I knew all along it was he but I couldn't tell you, you would have laughed at me unless I had absolute proof.<ref name="NAS">Ogden Nash, Poetry, "Don't guess, let me tell you," The New Yorker, April 20, 1940, p. 26</ref>
))

==See also==
*[[Narrative mode]]

==References==
((Reflist))

((Mary Roberts Rinehart|state=collapsed))

[[Category:Narratology]]

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