How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript
by James N. Frey
James N. Frey, How to Write
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"Frey urges writers to aim high - not to try to write a good-enough-to-get-published mystery, but a damn good mystery. A damn good mystery is first a dramatic novel, Frey insists - a dramatic novel with living, breathing characters - and he shows his readers how to create a living, breathing, believable character who will be clever and resourceful, willful and resolute, and will be what Frey calls "the author of the plot behind the plot."" "Frey then shows, in his well-known, entertaining, show more accessible (and often humorous) style, how the characters - the entire ensemble, including the murderer, the detective, the authorities, the victims, the suspects, the witnesses, and the bystanders - create a complete and coherent world."--Jacket. show lessTags
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No, I haven't writting a mystery, but this seems to go through all the steps. You have to have a method for killing the victim....something most author's don't put on the front burner. Not too long, very practical
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James N. Frey has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Extension, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Oregon Writers' Colony.
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- DDC/MDS
- 808.3872 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Rhetoric of fiction Genre writing Mysteries, horror, westerns, science fiction and fantasy Writing mysteries
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- PN3377.5 .D4 .F74 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Prose. Prose fiction Technique. Authorship
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