Detective Stories vs. Scholarly Findings

Detective stories, as opposed to scholarly findings, are very successful in grabbing readers' attention. Detective stories offer the suspense that an average reader can relate to, thus employing interest in the reader, as where a scholarly finding is more formal and would only be of use to a specialized reader. Furthermore, in a detective story, the author can manipulate the story's plot in a way that would grab the reader's attention. In a scholarly finding, the author cannot manipulate the findings, and must only state the facts. Moreover, the average reader would be more interested in a crime scene than a lab experiment. The series of Sherlock Holmes is of more interest to the public than the recent findings in the world of science.