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1.		Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama from Vintage Price: $8.80 Customer Review: I read this book every year, and every year I take something new from it. There's SO much in this short book. It's FILLED with truth about life, art, and life & art.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript from St. Martin's Press Price: $16.29 Customer Review: This is a good basic guide to writing a mystery from inspiration to book signings. The instructional side of things is enlivened by showing a mystery novel in the making--"Murder in Montana"--which puts an interesting spin on the process. Frey has a nice, easy style and uses humor to good effect.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Write Away from Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Customer Review: As a writer, I appreciate any advice from a known author. I've spoken to Elizabeth George at a reading in Manchester, Vermont and she gave me good feedback on my writing. I loved reading about place and interior landscape of characters and how important that was before the plot and story line.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Daemon Hall from Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Price: $13.56 Customer Review: I picked this up after my little brother checked it out from the library. Which is great because this is a teenager book, pure and simple. However, I must say that I really enjoyed it. Nance's whole objective, it seemed, was to praise creative writing and storytelling, and he certainly did his job... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Writing Mysteries from Writers Digest Books Price: $11.55 Customer Review: I used this book as a way to refresh my perspective on a mystery novel after finishing a second draft. I highlighted perhaps a dozen relevant/useful passages in the entire 300-page book. There are a handful of interesting ideas, but the biggest challenge I encountered is that the quality of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography from Ballantine Books Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Samuel Johnson famously said that 'at 77 it is time to be in earnest' and P.D. James is. She has not been a diarist but for this book she forced herself to become one. The book consists of a year's worth of diary with flashbacks and memories of the past. Structuring an autobiography is far more... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.	[no image]	Agatha Christie: An Autobiography from Dodd Mead Customer Review: I am actually amazed that I never read Agatha Christie's autobiography before now, since I have loved her books and re-read them many times over the years. She was born in 1890 in Devon, England and died in 1976 in Oxfordshire, England. She started this autobiography when she was 60 and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Crime Writer's Reference Guide: 1001 Tips for Writing the Perfect Murder from Michael Wiese Productions Price: $14.25 Customer Review: I purchased this book with some doubt. I wasn't sure if it was going to be what I was looking for as an aspiring horror & mystery writer. I have to say, I only read half way through this book so far; it's fantastic! Packed with information that any writer should know. This book covers everything... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery from Dell Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This seems to be a very well conceived and helpful book. It has a detailed plan for taking one from a blank page to a finished novel in a year's time. I haven't read through the whole book yet. NOR have I worked through many exercises yet, but found the first several exercises very helpful. Already... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Forensics and Fiction: Clever, Intriguing, and Downright Odd Questions from Crime Writers from St. Martin's Minotaur Price: $16.29 Customer Review: Very interesting book. I enjoyed it, but it was more technical than I expected. Lots of great, gruesome questions.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved from Pantheon Price: $17.13 Customer Review: This is a book especially for Raymond Chandler fans, who not only have read his books, but have read them a second time and enjoyed them even more. The writer is obviously in love with Chandler and lovingly describes his life in a fascinating travel of where he lived, what he did... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		You Can Write a Mystery (You Can Write) from Writers Digest Books Price: $10.39 Customer Review: This book is very well written. I really enjoyed reading this, and the information in the end of this book is priceless!!! Gillian Roberts did an excellent job, and she keeps it simple. I would highly recommend this book for any aspiring writer. I look forward to reading more of Ms. Robert's work.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $11.16 Customer Review: I found this book enjoyable to read, but not very useful as a practical guide. Written almost like an interview, Highsmith details the writing of her various books and short stories. If you're a fan of hers (as I am), these stories are entertaining since they show the genesis of her ideas and... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work (Howdunit) from Betterway Books Customer Review: This is a very basic book written by 2 detectives. It seems a bit dated to me (1995) and doesn't seem very writer-oriented either. While there is a wealth of material (from a detective's perspective), most of it was already known to me from watching TV & reading. While it could be used as a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Elements of Mystery Fiction, The: Writing the Modern Whodunit from Poisoned Pen Press Price: $15.25 Customer Review: William G. Tapply has great credentials for explaining about how to write mystery fiction: His series of Brady Coyne mysteries have been providing much reading pleasure to mystery fans for decades. He's also collaborated on novels with Linda Barlow and Philip R. Craig. The fishing happy aspect of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		How to Write a Mystery from Ballantine Books Price: $13.50 Customer Review: If nothing else, books on writing can help jumpstart your engine when writing. Mr. Beinhart's contribution to helping writers is a whodoesit (discussion on mystery writers) and a howdoit (on writing a mystery), and offers some thought-provoking insights.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		It Came From Ohio: My Life As A Writer (Goosebumps) from Scholastic Paperbacks Customer Review: Reading this book was like having dinner with R. L. Stine. I live in Columbus, Ohio and R. L. was raised right outside the city limits. This book is told through his voice and being the great story teller that he is, he captivated me with even the smallest facts about his career. He is... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Writing the Modern Mystery (Genre Writing Series) from Writers Digest Books Customer Review: WRITING THE MODERN MYSTERY has been treading the boards since 1986. Times have changed and the genre has convoluted in the over twenty years, but the basic concepts behind this standard work remain the same as everyone tries to write the "breakout novel," which isn't possible. Today this is a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Mystery Writing in a Nutshell from James A Rock & Co. Publishers Price: $9.95 Customer Review: As an avid mystery reader (from Doyle to Fforde), I did not expect to find this peak behind the curtain to be so enlightening or entertaining. Mystery Writing in a Nutshell should be required reading (and kept handy as a reference guide) for anyone who is a mystery lover and/or writing/editing a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.	[no image]	Agatha Christie: A Biography from Harpercollins Customer Review: This is a long and interesting biography of Agatha Christie, which discusses her life in some detail. having read Agatha Christie's won fascinating autobiography many times, I found in this book much interesting supplementary information. Things that are not discussed in the autobiography are gone... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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