More detective fiction!

After loads of female victims and male detectives, it is finally time for a woman to be a private investigator (I don’t include Judith Lee or Margaret from ‘Henry Dunbar’ here because they do not officially work as detectives). Meet Cordelia Gray in ‘An Unsuitable Job for a Woman’.

By now, I can only read suspiciously to the point where I question every detail of the book. This is not a bad thing for a professional reader, but I might be overthinking things a bit too much. Detection is mathematical. I wasn’t always the best at Maths, but I enjoyed its mode of thinking most of the time. Therefore I can easily access my personal archive and use those skills to understand the text better. Reading becomes a game - it’s enjoyable and it keeps your mind active. It’s a more interactive kind of reading.

I used 6 key terms here: reader, detection, time, archive, text, and game. These are the most important elements that we are discussing in relation to fiction in general for this course (yes, detection is needed in all literature if you want to be a professional reader). Reading is an art and writing is calculated. Have you ever thought about this?