How to Write a Mystery
![How to Write a Mystery](/cover/TuzCucdcFqEczoFO/big/How%20to%20Write%20a%20Mystery.jpg)
- Authors
- Beinhart, Larry
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Tags
- writing , mystery
- ISBN
- 9780307776051
- Date
- 1996-07-09T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.24 MB
- Lang
- en
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, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and turns of creating the twists and turns of a good mystery.
Drawing on advice and examples from a host of the best names in mystery writing--from Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane to Scott Turow and Thomas Harris--plus some of his own prime plots, Larry Beinhart introduces you to your most indispensable partners in crime:
Character, plot, and procedure
The secrets to creating heroes, heroines, and villains ("All writers draw upon themselves and their experience. While the whole of yourself might not be capable of being either a serial killer or an FBI agent, there are parts in each of us that are capable of almost anything.")
The fine art of scripting the sex scene
The low-down on violence ("A crime novel without violence is like smoking pot without inhaling, sex without orgasm, or a hug without a squeeze." )
*And much more!
From the opening hook to the final denouement, Larry Beinhart takes the mystery out of being a mystery writer.
From the Trade Paperback edition.