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From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an
invaluable guide to crafting mysteries—from character development
and plot to procedurals and thrillers—“this is a writing guide
that readers and writers will turn to again and again†(Booklist,
starred review). Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is known for
providing unparalleled resources on the craft, art, and business of
storytelling, helping writers of all levels improve their skills
for nearly a century. Now, this handbook helps authors navigate the
ever-shifting publishing landscape—from pacing, plotting, the
business side of publishing, to the current demand for diversity
and inclusivity across all genres, and more. Featuring essays by a
new generation of bestselling experts on various elements of the
craft and shorter pieces of crowd-sourced wisdom from the MWA
membership as a whole, the topics covered can be categorized as
follows: —Before Writing (rules; genres; setting; character;
research; etc.) —While Writing (outlining; the plot; dialogue;
mood; etc.) —After Writing (agents; editors; self-pub; etc.)
—Other than Novels (short stories; true crime; etc.) —Other
Considerations (diverse characters; legal questions; criticism)
Also included is a collection of essays from MWA published
authors—including Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen,
and Charlaine Harris—selected by bestselling
authors Lee Child and Laurie King and
arranged thematically answering, “What piece of writing advice do
you wish you’d had at the beginning of your career?â€
“Everything you wanted to know about how to plan, draft, write,
revise, publish, and market a mystery†(Kirkus Reviews), this
inclusive manual provides practical, current, easily digestible
advice for new and established authors alike.
Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville, returned to England upon his brother's death, determined to learn the truth about the untimely death of the hall's expected heir? a puzzle he is convinced only Holmes and Russell can solve.
It's a mystery that begins during the Great War of 1918, when young Gabriel Hughenfort, the late Duke's only son, died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. While Holmes heads to London to uncover the truth of Gabriel's war record, Russell joins an ill-fated shooting party. A missing diary, a purloined bundle of letters, and a trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that will call for Holmes's cleverest disguises and Russell's most daring journeys into the unknown? from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot, but can they catch an elusive villain in the act of murder before they become his next victims?
Third in Laurie King's popular Mary Russell crime series:
'Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels...civilised,
ingenious and engrossing' - Literary Review August, 1923. The quiet
in the Holmes household in Sussex is shaken when Dorothy Ruskin, an
amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, appears with an exquisite
inlaid box containing a scrap of ancient writing. Miss Ruskin soon
dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary prove was murder.
But what was the motivation? Was it the little inlaid box holding
the manuscript? Or the woman's involvement in the volatile politics
of the Holy Land? Or could it have been the manuscript itself - a
letter seemingly written by Mary Magdalene that contains a biblical
bombshell. Beautifully written and steeped in authentic period
detail, A Letter of Mary is a fascinating and intelligent read.
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Grave Talent (Paperback)
Laurie R. King; Edited by Anna DeVries
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In a town outside of San Francisco, a series of shocking murders
has occurred, each victim a child. For Det. Kate Martinelli, just
promoted to homicide, and her seasoned partner, a difficult case
just keeps getting harder. It seems the only clue is an elderly
woman, arguably the century's greatest painter, once convicted of
strangling a little girl. Martin's Press.
September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania,
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time with
Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But
when they arrive at Damian's house in the French countryside, they
discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. In the
ominously empty house, Russell discovers four crates packed with
memorabilia related to the artist Horace Vernet, including an old
journal written in a nearly impenetrable code. Intrigued, Russell
sets about deciphering the intricate cryptograph. The secrets of
the past appear to be reaching into the present. Could there be
things about Holmes' own history that even the master detective
does not perceive?
In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock
Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth
the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not
known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan
Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers,
others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or
science fiction. All of these talented authors, however, share a
great admiration for Arthur Conan Doyle and his greatest creations,
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. To the editors' great delight,
these stories go in many directions. Some explore the spirit of
Holmes himself; others tell of detectives themselves inspired by
Holmes's adventures or methods. A young boy becomes a detective; a
young woman sharpens her investigative skills; an aging actress and
a housemaid each find that they have unexpected talents. Other
characters from the Holmes stories are explored, and even
non-Holmesian tales by Conan Doyle are echoed. The variations are
endless! Although not a formal collection of new Sherlock Holmes
stories-however some do fit that mold-instead these writers were
asked to be inspired by the Conan Doyle canon. The results are
breathtaking, for fans of Holmes and Watson as well as readers new
to Doyle's writing-indeed, for all readers who love exceptional
storytelling.
In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock
Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth
the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not
known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan
Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers,
others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or
science fiction. All of these talented authors, however, share a
great admiration for Arthur Conan Doyle and his greatest creations,
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. To the editors' great delight,
these stories go in many directions. Some explore the spirit of
Holmes himself; others tell of detectives themselves inspired by
Holmes's adventures or methods. A young boy becomes a detective; a
young woman sharpens her investigative skills; an aging actress and
a housemaid each find that they have unexpected talents. Other
characters from the Holmes stories are explored, and even
non-Holmesian tales by Conan Doyle are echoed. The variations are
endless! Although not a formal collection of new Sherlock Holmes
stories-however some do fit that mold-instead these writers were
asked to be inspired by the Conan Doyle canon. The results are
breathtaking, for fans of Holmes and Watson as well as readers new
to Doyle's writing-indeed, for all readers who love exceptional
storytelling.
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To Play the Fool (Paperback)
Laurie R. King; Edited by Anna DeVries
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In this novel Kate Martinelli and Al Hawkin are investigating the
death of an apparently homeless man whose cremated remains are
found in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Implicated in the death
is an elderly man who calls himself Erasmus.
Rumours of a ghostly carriage and a huge ‘devil dog’ on a moonlit moor lead Sherlock Holmes and his wife and sleuthing partner Mary Russell back to the eerie scene of one of his most celebrated cases. And when the body of tin miner Josiah Gorton is found surrounded by oversize paw prints, it looks as if the Hound of the Baskervilles has returned to haunt Dartmoor once more. Attempting to unravel the mystery, Holmes and Russell find themselves caught up in local legend, myth and folklore as a devilish pattern begins to develop against the backdrop of the dark, foreboding Devonshire moor. True to their expectations, events have a real-world explanation, but it is one that combines more wild emotion, surprise, and frightening suspense than any ghost story could.
Second in Laurie King's acclaimed Mary Russell mystery series:
'Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels...civilized,
ingenious and engrossing' -- Literary Review In this the riveting
sequel to The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Mary Russell has
metamorphosed from able apprentice to skilled detective in her own
right. After a tedious visit from relatives, Mary is looking for
respite in London when she comes across a friend from Oxford. The
young woman introduces Mary to the enigmatic Margery Childe, leader
of the New Temple of God, a charismatic sect involved in the
post-World War One suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on
Christianity. Intrigued and curious, Mary begins to wonder if the
New Temple is a front for something more sinister. When a series of
murders claims members of the movement's wealthy young female
volunteers, Mary, with Holmes in the background, starts to
investigate, but events spiral out of control as the situation
becomes ever more desperate, and Mary's search plunges her into the
worst danger she has yet faced...
Queen Marie of Roumania, granddaughter to both Victoria, Empress of
the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, is in need of
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes' services. The Queen, a famous
beauty who has transformed Roumania from a quiet backwater into a
significant force, invites the pair to Bran castle, the ancient
fortress that sits on the border with the newly regained territory
of Transylvania. The threat the Queen fears is dubious: shadowy
figures, vague whispers, dangers that may only be accidents. But a
young girl is involved. So, putting aside their doubts, Russell and
Holmes set out to investigate the mystery in a land of long memory
and hidden corners, from whose churchyards the shades creep.
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Back to the Garden
Laurie R. King
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THE TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE FIRST NOVEL OF THE
ACCLAIMED MARY RUSSELL SERIES BY EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR LAURIE
R. KING.
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the
study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles
onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky,
egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays
an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant
tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft
protegee and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They
are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped
daughter of an American senator, a case of international
significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past. Full of
brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger, "The Beekeeper's
Apprentice," the first book of the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes
mysteries, is "remarkably beguiling" ("The Boston Globe").
It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily
reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and
cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a
more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo, where fortunes are
won, lost, stolen, and hidden away. So when Mary Russell and
Sherlock Holmes happen across the Cote d'Azur in this summer of
1925, they find themselves pulled between the young and the old,
hot sun and cool jazz, new friendships and old loyalties, childlike
pleasures and very grownup sins...
Mary Russell is well used to dark secrets - her own, and those of
her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing
slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two
have forged an indissoluble bond. But what of the other person Mary
Russell has opened her heart to, that third member of the Holmes
household: Mrs Hudson? Blood on the floor, a token on the
mantelpiece, the smell of gunshot in the air: all point directly at
Clara Hudson - or rather, at Clarissa, the woman she was before
Baker Street. The key to Russell's sacrifice lies in Mrs Hudson's
past, and to uncover the crime, a frantic Sherlock Holmes must put
aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper's secrets, to
a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were
buried away. There is death here, and murder, and trust betrayed.
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The Moor (Paperback)
Laurie R. King
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In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his
devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford
to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena
of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor
there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones
carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband--and of
a hound with a single glowing eye. Returning to the scene of one of
his most celebrated cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes
and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than
the moors themselves.
The latest adventure for the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband,
Sherlock Holmes takes readers into the frenetic world of silent
films, where the pirates are real and the shooting isn't all done
with cameras. In England's young silent-film industry, the
megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, Mary Russell
is dispatched to investigate the criminal activities that surround
Fflytte's popular movie studio. So Russell is traveling undercover
to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a
cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. But as movie make-believe
becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a
final fadeout.
1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find a stone.
The stone is inscribed with the same name that they last saw in the
Tokyo garden of the future emperor of Japan. It is the first
indication that the investigation they did for him a year ago might
not be as complete as they had thought. In Japan there were spies;
in Oxford there are dreams. In both places, there is a small,
dark-haired woman, and danger . . .
In 1924, San Francisco is booming. The great fire and earthquake of
1906 cleared the ground for a modern city, but the closer she comes
to the place she used to call home, the more troubling Mary
Russell's dreams become... As Russell and her husband, the eminent
Sherlock Holmes, attempt to settle their affairs in the City by the
Bay, Mary's past isn't the only thing that catches up with them - a
mysterious stranger is waiting for the pair, and may be the only
one who holds the key to the locked rooms that have been haunting
Mary's dreams... In Locked Rooms, internationally bestselling
author Laurie R King portrays the 1920s in exuberant detail and,
with near-lyrical prose, presents a compelling murder mystery that
will keep your imagination and attention locked in its pages until
the very end.
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the
study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him
on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and
recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to
impress even Sherlock Holmes--and match him wit for wit. Under his
reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves
a deft protegee and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective.
But even in their first case together, the pair face a truly
cunning adversary who will stop at nothing to put an end to their
partnership.
Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one riddle
on the moor, another knocks on their front door.literally. It's a
mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort
died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever
since. But it's not until Holmes and Russell arrive at Justice
Hall, a home of unearthly perfection set in a garden modeled on
Paradise, that they fully understand the irony echoed in the family
motto, Justicia fortitudo mea est: "Righteousness is my strength."
1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock
Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate
when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an
archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their
protection an ancient manuscript which seems to hint at the
possibility that Mary Magdalene was an apostle--an artifact certain
to stir up a storm of biblical proportions in the Christian
establishment. When Ruskin is suddenly killed in a tragic accident,
Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly
clever murderer. This next installment is brimming with political
intrigue, theological arcana, and brilliant Holmesian deductions.
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With Child (Paperback)
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Kate Martinelli takes her 12-year-old friend Jules on a trip to
'drop in' on the farm where Kate's partner Lee is recovering from a
gunshot wound. During the trip, in an area where a serial killer
has been victimising young girls, Jules disappears.
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"It's only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her
husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It
starts with a New Year's visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft, who
comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English
spy named Kimball O'Hara--the same Kimball known to the world
through Kipling's famed Kim. Inexplicably, O'Hara withdrew from the
"Great Game" of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably
disappeared.
When Russell discovers Holmes's own secret friendship with the spy,
she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India
to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that
in this faraway and exotic land, it's often impossible to tell
friend from foe--and that some games aren't played for fun but for
the highest stakes of all...life and death.
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