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Originally Posted by lmarie
To clarify: for many people here, "crime" has the connotation of "true crime", as in the Dewey Decimal classification of 364 (Crime). That is also the way Powell's classifies it. Public library spine labels for fiction genres here use the word "Mystery", not "Crime".
A classic "whodunit" is less about "crime" than about puzzle. Perhaps that is why we disagree. I never tell people I read "crime" -- I read mysteries!  |
My point was that it depends on in which country you live. In an UK bookshop the categories are "Crime" and "True Crime". So I assumed that the person doing the poll had used the UK terms.
Of course it is better to write Crime/Mystery instead in a poll.