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Title: How to Write a Mystery by Larry Beinhart ISBN: 0-345-39758-4 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 09 July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful, witty, and wonderful, but biased--not for cozies!
Comment: The things I love about this book are that it's clever, formally interesting, and fun to read, and that it is irreverent. It doesn't tell you to scrutinize the market and write only the sort of book that is viable and popular. It identifies the structures and details that make for pleasurable reading, and it encourages you to be innovative and unique. It sets you in the direction of thinking about the specific choices you've made for your book and how you can make them more compelling. However, this book should be called How to Write a Crime Novel, since the author is not concerned with traditional cozy mysteries--a huge portion of the mystery market, I would imagine--and admits that he doesn't understand their appeal. I would guess that if you are interested in hard-boiled crime fiction, you could get a whole education about its best and brightest here, since Beinhart's examples and analysis mine hard-boiled fiction for some amazing and entertaining material. He also offers many lists of exemplary hard-boiled writers and books. But the things the author says about cozies (and quotes others as saying about them) are unjustifiably paltry and cliched. As someone who is trying to write a cozy mystery series, I found this book extremely helpful, but not ideal.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Writer--Excellent Read (highly recommend)
Comment: ... Even though this book is specifically for writing mysteries,
it is by far the best of all the writing books I have.
Besides being a great writer, which makes this book a quick and enjoyable read, Larry gives practicle advice, inspiration, examples, and walks you through each step of writing a mystery.
I've put aside all other writing books and I'm reading this one for the second time.
It is well worth the money.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Agree ... One of the Best
Comment: This is a great book for both the beginner and the experience writer. It walks you through the process without holding your hand. Outlining the process from start to finish it can help the self-taught refresh their memories and to double check themsleves while providing a start to finish map for the new author to follow. Even for those who don't need the information contained within its covers, this is a good read that makes you think about the subject.
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Title: The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery by Robert J. Ray ISBN: 0440506581 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 06 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America by Sue Grafton, Jan Burke, Barry Zeman, Mystery Writers of America ISBN: 1582971021 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Crime Writer's Reference Guide: 1001 Tips on Writing the Perfect Murder by Martin Roth ISBN: 0941188493 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: You Can Write a Mystery (You Can Write It) by Gillian Roberts ISBN: 0898798639 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense by Carolyn Wheat ISBN: 1880284626 Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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