Writing Crime Fiction (The Writer's Library)

Name: Writing Crime Fiction (The Writer's Library)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780312055424

by Unknown Author

88 pages1991St. Martin's PressISBN 9780312055424

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About this book

This guide to writing crime fiction is based on the author's analysis of the craft from the classic detective story of the 1920s and 30s up to the female private eye novels of the 1990s. It features tips on fictional structure, the plot and its characters, and on submitting a script to publishers.

Publication Details

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1991
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780312055424

About Unknown Author

H.R.F. Keating (full name Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating) (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police, whose first appearance in *The Perfect Murder* (1964) won the author the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and an Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America. He eventually wrote twenty-six Ghote novels. *The Murder of the Maharajah* brought H.R.F. Keating a second Gold Dagger in 1980. Mr Keating, a past Chairman of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers Association, was crime reviewer for The Times from 1967 to 1983. Among the books about his art he had written or edited is *Whodunit*, a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. He wrote three books under the pseudonym Evelyn Hervey.