Case in point
How many percentage of the readers in crime are woman?
80%
Meantioning real-world places like London or The White House, creates this in crime fiction. what is it called?
Realism
This word describes the typical crime fiction protagonist who is a unique, intelligent outsider?
A Loner
Crime stories often follows this structure?
Home-out-home
What country purchases 21 million crime fiction books every year?
United Kingdom
Writers go to great lengths to describe how a place smells, feels, and looks in order to achieve this?
Realism
A loner´s intuition is often described as this kind of sense?
A sixth sense
This effect helps characters discover key facts quickly? which effect is it?
The push effect
What does Melanie McGrath claim women are afraid of, and is the reason they read crime.
These three major cities are common settings in crime fiction. what are these cities?
London, Los Angeles and New York
Miss Marple
This mystery writer created a list of "10 commandments" for writing detective fiction. who is it?
Ronald Knox
Fans wore black armbands, when this famous detective "died". who is it?
Sherlock Holmes
This TV series used symbolic landscapes to depict a corrupt and struggling American society. what is the series called?
The Wire
These three items make up a hardboiled loners typical breakfast?
Eggs, black coffee and cigarettes.
Crime writer Mar Billingham has explained the "reveal" as the writer leading his audience ... (continue the sentence)
"along the garden path"
P.D. James compares solving a mystery to winning this strategic board game. which game is it?
Chess
This famous British author is know for using locked room-style settings. Who is it?
Agatha Christie
This 19th-century writer is considered the father of crime fiction. who is it?
Edgar Allan Poe