01882cam a2200313 a 4500 78411 78411 BJBSDDR 20230410130658.0 ta 030812s2004 nyu b 000 0 eng 0312304463 spa BJBSDDR eng PN 3377.5 F893h 2004 808.3 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. Detective and mystery stories Authorship. Cuentos policiacos 5463 Detective y ficción de misterio Autoría 6996 Historias de detectives y misterio 6997 Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol054/2003058633.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003058633.html lcc BK lmm 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PN 3377.5 F893h 2004 00000120564 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK