Crime novel i guess is the most easiest and most hardest type of novel to write.Easy because you need not care for emotions, reader automatically feels the gravity of situation once he is introduced to the crime scene and hard because the author has to play with human phsyce every moment, keep the reader guessing till the last moment and at the end make a revelation which comes as a setback to all the superficial guess work by the reader and in someway makes the reader realize that solution to the mystery was before him right from the begining and would have guessed it if he/she had not succumed to the innocence or naivety displayed by characters.
The fact that i am writing about crime novel is because i have finished reading Agatha Christie's "Murder of Roger Ackroyed". As of now i have read two books of her the other being "murder on the orient express",both the books are unusual murder mysteries but with same Christie's style of suspecting everyone till the last moment and then revealing the real culprit among those few on mere basis of reasoning.And i bet that no matter how much guess work the reader does he/she will never get it right and the revelation of who the culprit is will come as a shock.
Crime novel more or less teaches us how to use our reasoning ablities and coming to conclusions which are logical and not emotional.This is the only aspect which defines great detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Hercules Poirot.
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