Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.
Bill JamesWhen people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
Bill JamesIt is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.
Bill James