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  • Archives: Mystery Writing Tips

January 22, 2014

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Reasons and Methods of Killing Characters—And One Reason Not To

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s an interesting phenomenon when you comb through your RSS reader—even if you have a large number of blogs that you’re following.  Sometimes it’s as if everyone got [...]

December 16, 2013

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The Range Of Search: A Key to Understanding (and Writing) Mystery Fiction

by Joe Benevento In Edgar Allan Poe’s third and final story featuring C. Auguste Dupin, “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin explains to the narrator why the police were unable to find the letter in [...]

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