How To Read Murder Mystery Essay

A truly gargantuan and innumerable population of people enjoy routinely reading murder mystery books and novels and stories on a routine and regular basis. That being said, as a general rule of thumb, these people are not typically themselves murderers (generally), nor would these people really ever enjoy seeing someone commit an actual murder, nor would most of them actually enjoy trying to solve an actual murder in real life. They (these people who read murder mystery books and novels and stories) probably enjoy reading murder mysteries because of this reason: they have found a way to escape from the monotonous, boring, tedious routine of their dull and predictable everyday existence.
To people such as these particular kinds of people who read murder mystery novels and stories and books, a murder mystery is simply nothing more …show more content…
The people who read such books of fiction play a game. It is a game in which they suspend certain human emotions. One of these human emotions that they must often times suspend is pity. If the reader stops to feel pity and sympathy for each and every victim that is killed, butchered, decapitated, maimed, crippled, injured, or otherwise mauled, or if the reader stops to feel such terrible horror that such a thing could happen in our modern world of today, then that person who is reading the text will never truly enjoy reading murder mysteries; they cannot separate themselves properly from the fictional world. The truly and unquestionably devoted reader of murder mysteries keeps uppermost in mind at all times the goal of arriving through logic and observation at the final, ultimate solution to the mystery offered in the book, novel, tale, or short story. It is a game with life and death. Whodunits hopefully help the reader to hide from the hideous, frightening, mortifying horrors of actual life and death in today’s real, modern world where reality reigns