What is a plot within a plot?

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Happens all the time in detective stories and crime dramas. the police begin to investigate a mysterious death, and then find drugs, crime paraphernalia or documents, immediately thickening the plot, it can get quite involved and almost become a retro-biogaphy of the victim of the crime. this has its merits and demerits.
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