Introduction to crime

Question 1

How described detective fiction as “an addiction to which readers succumb”?

Answer 1

Edmund Wilson

Question 2

What do crime novels focus on?

Answer 2

Transgressions against established order and the breaking of either national, social, religious or moral laws

Question 3

Why is mankind attracted to crime novels?

Answer 3

Thrill
Excite
Offer consolation of seeing villainy unmasked and virtue rewarded
Allow people to indulge in guilty pleasures

Question 4

What is a genre study?

Answer 4

The idea that genres are not fixed. There is no fixed definition for a genre

Question 5

What will writers often do when writing crime novels?

Answer 5

Subvert the conventions