By the time I got close to the end, I had a pretty good sense of how the novel might turn out (because the increased information enhanced my predictive capabilities), but I read through to the end to make sure that my predictions were correct.

Once I knew the solution, I had no need to remember any of it, since the situation will never reoccur. My brain pressed the delete button, and the completely engrossing experience was gone forever. How about that!

I've read other mysteries so I knew the genre, but not the specifics that would unfold in this novel. After about 30 pages, I had a good sense of the plot and characters, and so my conscious problem solving system began its continuing attempts to predict the plot trajectory and outcome. But since I had only a very limited amount of information at that point, I didn't have a lot of confidence in my predictions. I thus had to read on (gather more relevant information) in order to reduce the potential error rate of my early predictions. The author helped me to constantly adjust my beliefs to emerging new realities by writing a page-turner that maintained my interest while it enhanced my information base. But the author also sent me down blind alleys with misleading information. I thus had to keep my wits about me to separate helpful from useless information.