Academic Research vs. Detective Stories

Realistically, the idea of a suspense story is much more entertaining than that of a detailed academic report of a case. Many people consume their lives with mystery novels and thriller movies and often prefer these types of fictionalized cases to the hard core facts of academic research. For many reasons, this could be because fictionalized "detective stories" allow the reader to act as a detective themselves and provide them the opportunity to solve the case before they find out what happened rather than being told the facts of the case straightforwardly through academic findings.