tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post2920272412163767963..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Mysteries versus crime novelsEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-29050654307808855902009-10-01T08:05:42.901-07:002009-10-01T08:05:42.901-07:00All mysteries are crime novels. Not all crime nove...All mysteries are crime novels. Not all crime novels are mysteries. Would that work?MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12515927050827397245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-1956349651417068902009-10-01T06:27:07.677-07:002009-10-01T06:27:07.677-07:00I agree--I just don't see where the dividing l...I agree--I just don't see where the dividing line is. After all, in almost every mystery there has to be a crime; and in crime novels, even in the most hard-boiled, there's usually some sort of mystery at the heart of the story. Possibly there's a divide in tone: many "cozies" are considered mysteries, while "grittier" novels are considered crime books. But anyway you look at it, the division is arbitrary.<br /><br />I just enjoy reading a good, well-plotted, interesting book. I don't care about "genre."Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-42359402908274466832009-09-30T15:27:03.793-07:002009-09-30T15:27:03.793-07:00I've understood the term "crime fiction&q...I've understood the term "crime fiction" to cover any kind of fiction involving crime, since I first started using it as a term fifteen or twenty years ago--mysteries, suspense fiction, any sort of espionage fiction, Penzler's proviso of any fiction involving crime, all fit for me. It doesn't imply any greater pretense of literary value than mystery does...for me, anyway. Your non-friend's distinction simply struck me as a blatant display of ignorance, along the lines of "the mysteries I like are literature, the ones I don't are trash." Though, of course, the crime fictions _I_ like tend to be literature, and the ones I don't are as well, just not as good.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com