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You know, in all the years I hung out on rec.arts.mystery before giving up on it, I can't recall anyone ever talking about what got them hooked on mystery [1].

Mysteries do some things a lot better than SF novels do in my opinion. For one thing, I know when I pick up a Harry Bosch novel, while there may be issues that continue from book to book, there will be a complete story in the volume I am holding. With series SF, there's no guarantee of that at all.

Granted, fantasy is as bad or worse in this regard but you know, genre fantasy's market share is really only good in comparison to SF's.

1: In my case, probably Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.

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