How to write a damn good mystery : a practical step-by-step guide from inspiration to finished manuscript /
Frey, James N., 1943-
How to write a damn good mystery : a practical step-by-step guide from inspiration to finished manuscript / James N. Frey. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004. - xi, 271 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271).
"Frey urges writers to aim high - not to try to write a good-enough-to-get-published mystery, but a damn good mystery. A damn good mystery is first a dramatic novel, Frey insists - a dramatic novel with living, breathing characters - and he shows his readers how to create a living, breathing, believable character who will be clever and resourceful, willful and resolute, and will be what Frey calls "the author of the plot behind the plot."" "Frey then shows, in his well-known, entertaining, accessible (and often humorous) style, how the characters - the entire ensemble, including the murderer, the detective, the authorities, the victims, the suspects, the witnesses, and the bystanders - create a complete and coherent world."--Jacket.
0312304463
Detective and mystery stories--Authorship.
Cuentos policiacos
Detective y ficción de misterio--Autoría
Historias de detectives y misterio
PN 3377.5 / F893h 2004
808.3
How to write a damn good mystery : a practical step-by-step guide from inspiration to finished manuscript / James N. Frey. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004. - xi, 271 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271).
"Frey urges writers to aim high - not to try to write a good-enough-to-get-published mystery, but a damn good mystery. A damn good mystery is first a dramatic novel, Frey insists - a dramatic novel with living, breathing characters - and he shows his readers how to create a living, breathing, believable character who will be clever and resourceful, willful and resolute, and will be what Frey calls "the author of the plot behind the plot."" "Frey then shows, in his well-known, entertaining, accessible (and often humorous) style, how the characters - the entire ensemble, including the murderer, the detective, the authorities, the victims, the suspects, the witnesses, and the bystanders - create a complete and coherent world."--Jacket.
0312304463
Detective and mystery stories--Authorship.
Cuentos policiacos
Detective y ficción de misterio--Autoría
Historias de detectives y misterio
PN 3377.5 / F893h 2004
808.3