Ebook: How to write a damn good mystery: a practical step-by-step guide from inspiration to finished manuscript

Why People Read Mysteries and Other Useful Stuff for Mystery Writers to Know -- Ideas to Get You Started--The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- The Plot Behind the Plot -- Creating a Murderer -- How to Become Intimate with a Murderer -- The Hero/Detective -- Creating a Damn Good Hero -- The Other Characters: Some Mythic, Some Not and Mythic Motifs of Interest to Mystery Writers -- All About Plotting, Stepsheets, Flowcharts, and That Kind of Stuff or How to Get the Hell Out of the Way and Let Your Characters Tell the Story -- Designing the Plot for Fun and Profit -- Plotting Theory -- The Hero/Detective Gets to Work -- How Our Hero/Detective Figures It All Out -- All About Bringing Off a Gripping Climax and Other Good Stuff -- Gotcha! Putting the Murderer in the Bag -- Writing Damn Good Prose -- The Fine Art of Writing the Mystery Scene -- All About Viewpoints and Voices or Who's Telling This Damn Story Anyway--Me or Him? Him or Me? -- Drafting, Rewriting, and Polishing Your Damn Good Mystery -- The Killer Attitude or Getting an Agent, Dealing with Editors, Promotion, Book Signings, and Living the Writer's Life.