Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
St. Martin's Press (2004), Edition: 1, 288 pages
Description
"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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member carterchristian1
No, I haven't writting a mystery, but this seems to go through all the steps. You have to have a method for killing the victim....something most author's don't put on the front burner. Not too long, very practical
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
288 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
0312304463 / 9780312304461