Have you read (he asks rhetorically) Kiln People, by David Brin? Somewhat similar premise: a world where people can be copied, and the main character is a detective. He gets called in to solve the murder of an original, and spends the rest of the book discovering the real crimes, which are much more complicated.
It's also very different, of course. The copies are clay duplicates, not backups; it's set in the mid-21st century; and there's not much violence.
But it does manage to be a fair mystery, in part because different duplicates have different information, and only the reader has it all.
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Date: 2008-05-14 02:35 am (UTC)It's also very different, of course. The copies are clay duplicates, not backups; it's set in the mid-21st century; and there's not much violence.
But it does manage to be a fair mystery, in part because different duplicates have different information, and only the reader has it all.