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How to write a damn good mystery : a practical step-by-step guide from inspiration to finished manuscript / James N. Frey.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.Description: xi, 271 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0312304463
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.3
LOC classification:
  • PN 3377.5 F893h 2004
Online resources: Summary: "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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 3377.5 F893h 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000120564

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.

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