It’s no mystery why we’re drawn to crime fiction
The Colin McEnroe Show
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The Unreliable Narrator
The detective as possessor of kind of randomized knowledge, because Holmes can't really prepare for any particular case. He's essentially and implicitly prepared for everything. And I think that kind of hangs over. Even Colin Dexter's Morse, Inspector Morse, is an ox - he washed out of Oxford because of a broken heart or something. Almost all of Adrian McKinney's heroes are these kind of polymaths. They might have horrible heroin habits, but they know all kinds of things about jazz and Greco-Roman history. So I think you're right that it's this interesting, unusual, and also slightly distant quality that we find appealing,. even if we're very different as people from the
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