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What makes a Great Clue? Writing Lessons from Masters of Mystery

July 29, 2017 Meldoie Winawer 0

What makes a Great Clue? Writing Lessons from Masters of Mystery Before I turned ten, I devoured The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes I read by myself but often I read out loud with my father, who […]

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From the Mysterious to the Presidential: Ten Things you didn’t Know about the Bronx Zoo

July 28, 2017 Linda Fairstein 0

From the Mysterious to the Presidential: Ten Things you didn’t Know about the Bronx Zoo Zoos are magical places, especially now that the emphasis in most of them has changed from caging animals to conserving […]

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FIVE AMISH MYSTERY WRITERS WORTH INVESTIGATING

July 26, 2017 Shelley Shepard Gray 0

FIVE AMISH MYSTERY WRITERS WORTH INVESTIGATING I’ve learned that there’s a lot more to writing an Amish suspense or mystery than simply adding a couple of buggies and setting the novel in the country. The […]

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Sourcebooks: Driving Change in the Publishing World

July 24, 2017 Garrett Kim 0

Sourcebooks: Driving Change in the Publishing World Everyone knows the legendary story of how Steve Jobs started Apple Computers in a garage, but many people don’t realize that publishing often has the same humble beginnings […]

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BOOK REVIEW: You Gotta Be Dirty: The Outlaws Motorcycle Club In & Around Wisconsin

July 19, 2017 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

BOOK REVIEW: You Gotta Be Dirty: The Outlaws Motorcycle Club In & Around Wisconsin By Michael Grogan Badger Wordsmith 2016 $14.95 In this true-crime history, Michael Grogan looks at the criminally inclined motorcycle gangs that […]

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Five of the Best Villains and Victims in Sherlock Holmes Stories

July 17, 2017 Mike Finlay 0

Five of the Best Villains and Victims in Sherlock Holmes Stories People love the Sherlock Holmes stories for lots of reasons, but one of the joys for me is the secondary characters Conan Doyle creates. […]

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Top Ten Coastal Mysteries

July 17, 2017 Claire Douglas 0

Top Ten Coastal Mysteries Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier This is probably one of the first thrillers I ever read and I was swept up in this haunting tale of jealousy and love. I was as […]

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The Best Novel Nominees React and An Appreciation of Cussler

July 12, 2017 Andrew Gulli 0

The Best Novel Nominees React and An Appreciation of Cussler Reviewers from some of the nation’s top newspapers and magazines—including the  NPR, TIME magazine, Boston Globe and the Washington Post—chose this year’s lineup of nominees for The Strand […]

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The Potential Best Debut Novelists at The Strand Critics Awards

July 11, 2017 Andrew Gulli 0

The Potential Best Debut Novelists at The Strand Critics Awards (The nominees for Best Debut Novel shared their reactions after receiving news of their nominations.) A Deadly Affection By Cuyler Overholt (Sourcebooks Landmark) “Launching your […]

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Top 10 Mysteries Set in the British Countryside

July 7, 2017 William Shaw 0

Top 10 Mysteries Set in the British Countryside The British countryside is such a peaceful, bucolic place. Who on earth would want to kill anyone there? Yet we’ve been doing it for years. From Wuthering Heights onward, the […]

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