How does today’s crime-fiction writer convince readers their detective character has unique skills in uncovering important crime-solving information when so much information is already available on the internet? It’s not really a new problem, says FSU’s Michelle Kazmer, who notes that many formal information systems were also available during the heyday of crime novelist Agatha Christie.
Such systems included the telephone, postal system—even railroad timetables. “Detection is an information behavior,” Kazmer said. “You are seeking information, figuring out what to keep and what to get rid of, organizing what you keep and then drawing a conclusion. In the case of these stories, the detectives use information to determine who committed the crime and why.”
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