Do convicts or police read detective novels ?

submitted by Cancelthis from self.AskSaidIt

Just putting it out there.

There are literally 10s of 1000s of novels and stories and plot lines/ scripts based on mystery novel type plots.

Do police - or convicts, ever read them ?

What do they think of them if they do ?

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[–]P-38lightning 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Every homicide detective should watch the entire Columbo series.

[–]Cancelthis[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Answer proposed :

The world is divided into two groups.

  • Police / criminals / convicts / felons / gangsters / employees of police departments

  • In the second category :

    people who read detective novels. Or detective stories. Or mysteries. Or read or write detective scripts.

Richard Falk

Angela Lansbury

Agatha Christie

Robert Louis Stevenson

Telly Savalas

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tony Shaloub

[–]monkeymama 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i am a big fan of COLD CASE and FORENSICS...

one of the biggest mistakes that killers make is that they dont properly dispose of the bodies, instead they carelessly just dump it somewhere..

there is a saying that says "NO BODY = NO CRIME"..

when will they learn?

one of my favorite cases was of vlad the impaler..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBhx5HFO6N4

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They don't read them. They star in them.

[–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Necessarely yes. After all there are a lot of true crime shows.

I'd think they start watching it after they're in the line of work long enough. They would be seeing the same things they see on real life but in fiction, that's kind of novel.