Edgar Allan Poe Award winner, Pulitzer Prize nominee, and
best-selling author John McAleer, Ph.D. (Harvard), taught crime
fiction at Boston College for nearly four decades, nurturing
authors like George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), Chuck
Hogan (The Standoff), Margaret McLean (Under Oath), James Devlin
(Elmore Leonard), and Ted Murphy (the "Belltown Mysteries"). Now he
and his son, Andrew McAleer-also a mystery author and Professor of
Crime Fiction at Boston College-share the secrets, techniques and
art of crafting the mystery novel. Mystery Writing in a Nutshell is
an invaluable resource which, step-by-step, takes the writer
through the mystery-writing process from creating suspense and
strategizing plot twists to hiding clues and enriching character
development and much more. With this guide to mystery writing at
your side, it is only a matter of time before your novel is afoot
ABOUT THE AUTHORS John McAleer is the Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning
author of Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life and a best-selling author of
fifteen other books including the critically-acclaimed mystery,
Coign of Vantage. A Professor of English Literature at Harvard and,
later, Boston College for more than half a century, Professor
McAleer also worked as an editor of The Armchair Detective, served
as a vice president of the Mystery Writers of America and was
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Andrew McAleer is the author of
three mystery novels and serves as the president of America's
oldest continuing literary society, the Boston Authors Club. He
teaches Crime Fiction at Boston College, is a member of the Private
Eye Writers of America, the editor of the award-winning
Crimestalker Casebook and a recipient of the Sherlock Holmes Revere
Bowl Award. Mr. McAleer practices law privately in Massachusetts.
Edward D. Hoch is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, an
Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning author and one of the most prolific
writers in the crime fiction genre. A tireless contributor to
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mr. Hoch served as president of the
MWA and was the 1991 guest of honor at Bouchercon.
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