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Rex Stout A Majestys Life Millennium Edition
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John J McAleer, P G Wodehouse
James Rock
, February 05, 2007
Comment and Description by the Publisher: The millennial Edition of the Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" award winning biography of the creator of "Nero Wolfe." Sixteen pages of photographs
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Mystery Writing in a Nutshell
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John McAleer and Andrew McAleer
James Rock
, February 05, 2007
Comment & Description from the Publisher: After all these years, I still learned a few things myself from these pages. I’m sure you will too — from the Foreword by Edward D. Hoch, A new books from Edgar Allan Poe Award winner, Pulitzer Prize nominee, and best-selling author John McAleer, Ph.D. (Harvard), who taught crime fiction at Boston College for nearly four decades, nurturing authors like George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), Chuck Hogan (The Standoff), Margaret McLean (Under Oath), James Devlin (Elmore Leonard), and Ted Murphy (the Belltown mysteries). Now, in Mystery Writing in a Nutshell, he and his son, Andrew McAleer—also a mystery author and Professor of Crime Fiction at Boston College—share with aspiring mystery and suspense novelists the secrets, techniques, and art of crafting the mystery novel. Mystery Writing in a Nutshell is an invaluable resource, which, step by step, takes the writer through the mystery writing process from creating suspense and strategizing plot twists, to hiding clues, and enriching character development, and much, much more. With this most precise guide yet to mystery writing, it is only a matter of time before your novel is afoot! About the Authors: John McAleer, Ph.D. is the Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning author of Rex Stout: A Biography and a best-selling author of fifteen other books, including the critically-acclaimed mystery, Coign of Vantage. A professor of English literature at Harvard and then Boston College for more than half a century, Professor McAleer was also a former editor with The Armchair Detective, served as a vice president of the Mystery Writers of America, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Andrew McAleer is the author of three mystery novels and serves as the president of America’s oldest continuing literary society, the Boston Authors Club. He teaches crime fiction at Boston College, is a member of the Private Eye Writers of America, the editor of the award-winning Crimestalker Casebook, and a recipient of the Speckled Band’s Sherlock Holmes Revere Bowl Award. Edward D. Hoch (Foreword) Edward D. Hoch is one of the most honored mystery writers of all time. Author of over 800 short stories, Ed Hoch won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1968 for his story, “The Oblong Room.” In addition to being named a Grand Master in 2001 by the Mystery Writers of America he has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America (2000) and an Anthony Award (1998) and a Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) from the Bouchercon
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