Mystery Writing


How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript
Writing Mysteries
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'em Dead with Style
Writing the Modern Mystery
The Crime Writer's Reference Guide: 1001 Tips On Writing the Perfect Murder
The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery: From Empty Page to Finished Mystery in Just 52 Weekends--A Dynamic Step-by-Step Program
How to Write a Mystery
The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing a Modern Whodunit
Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A. [Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book]
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Fiction: Theory and Technique
Being a Detective: An A-Z Readers' and Writers' Guide to Detective Work
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel Revised and Expanded Edition: The Complete Guide to Mystery, Suspense, and Crime
Writing the Private Eye Novel: A Handbook by the Private Eye Writers of America
Ruby Gupta
Morals are the first sacrifice at the alter of ambition.
Ruby Gupta, The Secret of Leifeng Pagoda

Dann McDorman
This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all.
Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

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