Lots of people enjoy reading murder mysteries. However, they are not particularly fond of seeing someone commit an actual murder or solving a case. Probably, they enjoy reading murder mysteries due to this: they have found a more exciting way to, boring routine of dull everyday living.
To these people murder mysteries are realistic fantasies. This is because the people in the story can be perceived as real humans, and not some pasteboard figure. It is also realistic because the hero that solves the murder case, does it by excercising a high degree of logic and reason. Having an admiration for logic, is absolutely essential for anyone who enjoys murder mysteries.
Murder mysteries are also fantasies. People who read fiction books play a game. In this game, they stop certain human emotions. One of these emotions is pity. If the reader stops to feel pity and sympathy for every victim or if the reader feels terrible that such a thing could happen in our world, that person will never enjoy reading murder mysteries. The devoted reader keeps in mind at all times that by using logic and observation, the solution to the case will be given. It is a game with life and death. Whodunits hopefully help the reader hide from the hideous horrors of actual life and death in the real world.
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