I just finished reading two Hercule Poirot novels and so for the time being Agatha Christie is my favourite author (again). Be it Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, Agatha Christie or even Enid Blyton, detective novels have a special place in my heart.
There is a certain mystique surrounding detectives: how they think, how they look at things, how they talk…
Ever since I picked up my first detective novel from the school library (which incidentally was also a Agatha Christie), I was hooked. I remember as I kid I used a magnifying glass to read the “big” Sherlock Holmes book my brother once issued from the library.
So, why do I love reading detective novels?
PS: If you haven’t already, watch the BBC Sherlock series. There are no words to describe it. Just three one-and-a-half hour episodes, but WOW!
There is a certain mystique surrounding detectives: how they think, how they look at things, how they talk…
Ever since I picked up my first detective novel from the school library (which incidentally was also a Agatha Christie), I was hooked. I remember as I kid I used a magnifying glass to read the “big” Sherlock Holmes book my brother once issued from the library.
So, why do I love reading detective novels?
- Everything ALWAYS comes together in the end
- The detective gets to say random things that make no sense, and people think s/he is so very intelligent (well, of course, in the end the “random” things aren’t just random and the detectives really are intelligent)
- Detectives don’t Google, they just know
- I secretly I want to be a detective, pick up random clues, make sense out of them, and say “Voila!”
PS: If you haven’t already, watch the BBC Sherlock series. There are no words to describe it. Just three one-and-a-half hour episodes, but WOW!
