a practical step-by-step guide from inspiration to finished manuscript Frey, James N. 1943- creator text bibliography nyu New York St. Martin's Press 2004 monographic eng

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xi, 271 p. ; 22 cm. "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. James N. Frey. Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271). Detective and mystery stories Authorship Cuentos policiacos Detective y ficción de misterio Autoría Historias de detectives y misterio PN 3377.5 F893h 2004 808.3 0312304463 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol054/2003058633.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003058633.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol054/2003058633.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003058633.html 030812 20230410130658.0 spa