HOW TO WRITE MYSTERIES

The Origin of Edgar Allan Poe's Detective Stories

2010-07-19T03:00:00.000-04:00

The following link is to a video offers a possible explanation for the origin of Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories. Biography clip Links to the full Biography program about Poe: Part...

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The Mysterious Mind

2010-06-18T12:59:00.003-04:00

I've been searching for a helpful theoretical/methodological perspective to use in one of my research projects on mysteries. I think I found a perspective. In an unrelated political...

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NYT: "James Patterson, Inc."

2010-02-20T15:53:00.014-05:00

The recent NYT Magazine article about prolific author James Patterson has a few key facts relevant to my current Women's Murder Club research project (see previous posts). Johnathan Mahler...

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The Women's Murder Club is Born

2010-02-09T23:40:00.005-05:00

In the beginning of 1st to Die (Patterson, 2001), the main character, Detective Lindsay Boxer asks her friends to help her to solve a serial murder case. The two friends, Claire, a medical examiner...

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James Patterson on Women in his Writing

2010-01-20T01:03:00.002-05:00

In my last post I shared some info. about why James Patterson sometimes writes from a woman's perspective, for example, in the Women's Murder Club series and in Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas. Just...

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The Women's Murder Club and Crime Solving [Video]

2010-01-17T00:00:00.007-05:00

In the WPBF news interview below, James Patterson describes where his idea for the Women's Murder Club novel series came from. This is relevant to my current research because the current focus...

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What is a blog? How do you subscribe to a blog?

2010-01-01T18:22:00.003-05:00

I've searched the Internet and I think the following videos do a great job in explaining basic blogging concepts (blog, reader, rss feed, etc.). After watching these videos you'll be able to...

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Brad Pitt in "Sherlock Holmes" sequel?

2009-12-30T21:07:00.003-05:00

After I finish the Women's Murder Club research project, I'm thinking about doing some detailed analysis of Sherlock Holmes. So, I couldn't help but post these videos about the new Sherlock Holmes...

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Prologue & Purpose

2009-12-26T21:56:00.007-05:00

This is a research blog about mystery writing for television, novels, video games, etc.. This research blog and companion web site serve as my set of notes and data for my research projects on...

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