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Writing the Private Eye Novel: A Handbook by the Private Eye Writers of America (1997)

by Robert J. Randisi (Editor)

Other authors: Lawrence Block (Contributor), Max Allan Collins (Contributor), Catherine Dain (Contributor), Wiliam L. DeAndrea (Contributor), Loren D. Estleman (Contributor)11 more, Ed Gorman (Contributor), Sue Grafton (Contributor), Jan Grape (Contributor), Parnell Hall (Contributor), Jeremiah Healy (Contributor), Jerry Keneally (Contributor), Wendi Lee (Contributor), John Lutz (Contributor), Christine Matthews (Contributor), Les Roberts (Contributor), Michael Seidman (Contributor)

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Writers will welcome these tricks of the detective fiction trade by some of the genre's top names such as Sue Grafton, and Parnell Hall.
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Randisi, Robert J.Editorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Block, LawrenceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Collins, Max AllanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dain, CatherineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
DeAndrea, Wiliam L.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Estleman, Loren D.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gorman, EdContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Grafton, SueContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Grape, JanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hall, ParnellContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Healy, JeremiahContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Keneally, JerryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lee, WendiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lutz, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Matthews, ChristineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Roberts, LesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Seidman, MichaelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Contains:
  • Writing the Private Eye Novel / Parnell Hall
  • The Care and Feeding of a P.I. Series / Ed Gorman
  • The Deadly Cruise / Lawrence Block
  • The Use of the Journal in Writing a Private Eye Novel / Sue Grafton
  • And the Murderer Is … / Loren D. Estleman
  • Writers Write! / Robert J. Randisi
  • Putting Yourself on the Page / Les Roberts
  • Writing and Reading / Ed Gorman
  • Developing a Series Character / Jeremiah Healy
  • The P.I.'s the Thing / Robert J. Randisi
  • The Private Eye: Doing It in Public / William L. Deandrea
  • Senses and Sensibilities: Female P.I.s in the Nineties / Catherine Dain
  • The Trans-Gender Writer: Finding Your Voice / Wendi Lee
  • A Trip into the Hinterlands / Jan Grape
  • Private Eye Witness: Historical P.I. Fiction / Max Allan Collins
  • Write What You Know and Fake the Rest / Jerry Keneally
  • I Can Do That! / Christine Matthews
  • Short and Shamus / John Lutz
  • Crossing Over / Wendi Lee
  • The Visual Eye: Writing Private Eye Comic Books / Max Allan Collins
  • Humor in the Private Eye Novel / Parnell Hall
  • So You're Gonna Walk the Mean Streets / Michael Seidman
  • Printout to Published / Michael Seidman
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