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How not to do it? A Detection Club cartoon by Clewsey.
HOWDUNIT
A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
CONCEIVED AND EDITED BY
Martin Edwards
COLLINS CRIME CLUB
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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London SE1 9GF
Published by Collins Crime Club 2020
Copyright © The Detection Club 2020
Introduction and editorial material © Martin Edwards 2020
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Source ISBN: 9780008380137
Ebook Edition © September 2020 ISBN: 9780008380144
Version: 2020-07-31
Dedicated to Len Deighton, elected to membership of the Detection Club in 1969
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Premise
Martin Edwards Introduction
Motives
G. K. Chesterton The Value of Detective Fiction
R. Austin Freeman The Art of the Detective Story
Ian Rankin Why Crime Fiction Is Good for You
Frances Fyfield The Moral Compass of the Crime Novel
Beginning
Janet Laurence Getting Started
Freeman Wills Crofts Finding Ideas
Nicholas Blake Sources of Inspiration
Ann Granger Putting Murder on the Page
Natasha Cooper Intensity in Crime Writing
Peter Robinson ‘Something Should Happen Now’: Narrative Hooks
People
Mark Billingham Character from Suspense
Bill James Cops and Criminals, Contrast and Comedy
Marjorie Eccles Making Characters Believable
June Thomson Characters, Relationships, and Settings
Places
P. D. James On the Suffolk Coast
Michael Ridpath Setting Stories in Unfamiliar Places
M.O.