How To Write Crimeshows you the skills, techniques and short cuts used by the award-winning, best-selling writers who have contributed to this book. They offer you their own tips and experiences in ways to solve problems, the creation of characters, working out the plot, writing gripping action scenes, the unobtrusive planting of clues and the way you can blend the real with the imagined to make a plausible story.Conceived as a practical 'how-to' guide on writing crime fiction, this book is much more than that. It reveals writers at work: giving fascinating insights on the way they approach what they do and how their books were produced.Whether you want to write a story of your own or are simply interested in reading more crime fiction, this book will prove invaluable.

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Clearly the brevity and anonymity of the review titled "This Book Offers No New Insights" (February 25, 1998) by "A Reader from USA" indicates skulduggery. The quote from my chapter in Marele Day's "How To Write Crime" is used by this review to misrepresent the whole book and entirely misses the point of my ironic narrative. It's a pity that "A Reader from USA" is not "A BETTER Reader from USA". And anyhow, anonymous reviews, like anonymous phone calls, are gutless ways of communicating.
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This Book Offers No New Insights:

This book, written by and for Australian hardboiled crime writers, offers no insights on writing that you couldn't find in a dozen other mediocre books on writing. Nigel Krauth's advice (p.111) that you should know what it feels like to knife a constable or "to rape an eight-year-old" is sick-making. Cozy readers steer clear of this one.

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