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How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
by Janet Evanovich  Publisher Comments How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist? Especially one like Janet Evanovich.Writers want to know how a bestselling author thinks, writes, plans, and dreams her books. And they are primed for a book from Janet Evanovich that tells, in a...
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Critical Survey of Mystery & Detect 5 Volumes
by Carl E Rollyson Synopsis Continuing the Salem Press tradition of Critical Survey series, Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Revised Edition provides detailed analyses of the lives and writings of major contributors to the fascinating literary subgenre of mystery...
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Spider, Spin Me a Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers
by Lawrence Block Publisher Comments The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Bloock's expert advice, you can learn...
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How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense
by Carolyn Wheat 
Publisher Comments It takes brains to solve a mystery; it takes guts to survive suspense. Here are tips and inspiration for successful writing in either game. Carolyn Wheat, the highly regarded creative writing teacher and author, explains the difference between...
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Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons
by Michael Newton Synopsis Describes weapons used by criminals, police, soldiers, terrorists, and hunters, and briefly traces the development of firearms and explosives....
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How To Write a Mystery (96 Edition)
by Larry Beinhart Publisher Comments WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT! So you want to write a mystery. There's more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For...
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Criminal Convictions: Errant Essays on Perpetrators of Literary License
by Nicholas Freeling Synopsis Universally recognized as one of today's premier writers of crime fiction, Nicolas Freeling here displays yet another side of his original mind in these "enviably perceptive and lyrical" essays (Kirkus) on other players in the same field. Freeling's...
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Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual
by Rita Mae Brown Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their...
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Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases
by Elaine Raco Chase Publisher Comments Never before has such specialized information been so thoroughly compiled and easily accessible to writers! Each book is written by a professional in their respective field, providing the inside details that writers need to weave a credible -- and...
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How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art & Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past
by Kathy Lynn Emerson Synopsis In her useful, fascinating, and complete guide to writing historical mysteries, Emerson demonstrates how she and her colleagues bring history to life, rather than merely writing contemporary mystery in costume....
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Mystery and crime :the New York Public Library book of answers : intriguing and entertaining questions and answers about the who's who and what's what of whodunits
by Jay Pearsall Synopsis A gathering of more than 1,000 interesting, clever, and hilarious questions and answers about the world of mystery fiction for the ever-inquisitive mystery, crime, and suspense fan by the owner of New York bookstore, Murder Ink....
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Missing Persons: A Writer's Guide to Finding the Lost, the Abducted and the Escaped (Howdunit Writing)
by Fay Faron Synopsis Never before has such specialized information been so thoroughly compiled and easily accessible to writers! Each book is written by a professional in their respective field, providing the inside details that writers need to weave a credible -- and...
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Modus operandi :a writer's guide to how criminals work
by Mauro V Corvasce Publisher Comments Never before has such specialized information been so thoroughly compiled and easily accessible to writers! Each book in this series is written by an expert in the field, providing the inside details that writers need to weave a credible -- and salable --...
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Women of Mystery
by Martha Haile Dubose Publisher Comments In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists...
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Scene of the Crime: A Writer's Guide to Crime-Scene Investigations (Howdunit Writing)
by Anne Wingate Synopsis Never before has such specialized information been so thoroughly compiled and easily accessible to writers! Each book is written by a professional in their respective field, providing the inside details that writers need to weave a credible -- and...
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100 Must-Read Crime Novels: Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides
by Richard Shephard Publisher Comments Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favorite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular Good Reading, this book contains a rich selection of some of the best crime novels ever published....
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Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers
by Lawrence Block Publisher Comments Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career. From studying...
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The Heirs of Anthony Boucher: A History of Mystery Fandom
by Marvin Lachman Publisher Comments This history of mystery fandom is called The Heirs of Anthony Boucher because it was to Boucher's mystery review column in the New York Times Book Review that fans turned, before what Lachman calls "The Fan Revolution" was launched in 1967. In a literary...
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Back to the Badlands: Crime Writing in the USA
by John Williams Publisher Comments "A gazetteer of American noir."-Daily TelegraphIn the summer of 1989 John Williams donned a baseball cap and took off for the States to search out the mythical America of modern crime fiction-to find James Ellroy's Los Angeles, Elmore Leonard's sleazy...
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The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women
by Catherine Nickerson Synopsis ""The Web of Iniquity" presents strikingly original research on an intriguing subject: the origins of the American detective novel in mid-nineteenth-century domestic fiction. Nickerson has hit upon a rich and absorbing subject. No other book has treated...
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