Touch detective 38/29/2023 ![]() My take? Detective fiction-hardboiled, softboiled, over-easy, scrambled, or baked in a cake-is on the rise and will continue being a huge crime-paying moneymaker in coming years. There are reasons for that, why detective fiction remains so popular, and I think I’ve found some. I stumbled on an interesting article at a site called. ![]() ![]() Its title Why is Crime Fiction So Popular?caught my attention, so I copied and pasted it onto a Word.doc and dissected it. Here’s the nuts, bolts, and screws of what it says.Ĭrime fascinates people, and detectives (for the most part) work on solving crimes. It has far more to do with the very essence of storytelling-people are hardwired to listen to stories, especially crime stories.ĭetective fiction is premiere crime storytelling and clearly exhibits one of the fundamental rules of storytelling: cause and effect.īut the crime genre popularity has little to do with the crime, per se.
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