 Mystery: December 31, 2008 Issue [#2795] |
  Mystery
This week: Edited by: SHERRI GIBSON  
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What is a mystery? It is like a puzzle. A reader has to deiscover the secret or riddle in an effort to solve it and find out who the criminal or enemy is. Clues are imperative, but should be puzzling. Making the reader have to think by the use of a strong plot that paints a picture in their mind is essential, yet a mystery writer must always leave them guessing until the end.  |
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 What is your idea of a good mystery? Is it a cozy mystery with less action, a hardboiled detective mystery, an amateur detective mystery, or one not mentioned here?
This week's newsletter will center on mystery settings. Writers on Golden Age Mystery fiction talk about "the English Country House Mystery", but the greatest of these writers, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen differ. For example, Christie's popular works tend to be on the road at archaeological sites in the Middle East or among middle class residents in small towns. Carr's settings mostly were from London, where mysterious structures, criminal, and ghostly activities occurred in the evening. Later, he used the suburban villas in France. Queen usually used New York as his setting, and some in Hollywood. His stories centered on sophisticates and eccentrics much of the time. All three writers set up their work at country houses occasionally. The settings chosen were among the best available for fiction in the 1930's. The importance of a good setting still applies when writing a good mystery. Modern times demand more. Setting has to be as important as plot, or a reader's interest is lost. This goes for any type of story written. Wrong setting means loss of interest.
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I read all three authors, but centered on Holmes and Poe. Now as an older adult, have switched to Anne Rice, E.L. Farrel and other fiction writers.
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Happy Holidays!
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Thanks for including me in your mystery newsletter! I'm so glad you enjoyed "Blurry." That story is really close to my heart and one of my favorites. In fact, I'm considering the possibility of working on a short story "prequel" to it. Stay tuned to my port in 2009! Thanks again!
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