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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #45359
Detective glories
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Detective glories tend to glorify crime. Murderers, gangsters, and crooks all kinds are described as tough, cunning and courageous individuals who know how to take care of themselves and how to get what they want. In James McCain's The Postman Always Rings twice, for instance, the villain is much more an impressive character than his victim. He is casual brave smart and successful with women. It is true that he finally gets caught. But he is punished for a crime that he did not commit so that his conviction is hardly a triumph of justice. Besides, looking back over the exciting life of the criminal, the reader might conclude that it was worth the risk.
According to this passage, a criminal in a detective story generally gets caught
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