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"In crime fiction readers like the idea of a puzzle, like the characters that emerge, but they don't really want their victims to be real. There's a comfortable distance.

French actor Jean Gabin as Inspector Maigret (1958). Wikimedia commons. Crime fiction today is written, published, sold and read on all continents.