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Why are mystery novels and stories so basic? I was thinking about this the other day as I read the excellent Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King. Ever since its inception the mystery / detective novel has been the core of popular fiction, with many another genre being merely a branch of mystery in general. From Wilkie Collinss The Moonstone and The Woman In White to Poes The Gold Bug and The Purloined Letter, through Doyles Sherlock Holmes fritterings down to todays modern high-tech thrillers, including spies like James Bond 007 and Robert Ludlums Jason Borne, or social satire like Agatha Christies, to killer thriller police procedurals like Thomas Harriss Silence of the Lambs, and on and on, mystery has never lost its ability to adapt and fascinate us. That is interesting when one recalls Einsteins enjoiner that “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Hence, being a core experience, any fiction dealing with mystery, and the investigation of it, and the order found in mysterys chaos, is compelling to anyone who is alive, awake to the world, and interested in existence.

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