Crime Writer's Handbook

Douglas Wynn

Police procedural to the legal thriller. This highly informative book tells you all you need to know to get the facts right for your crime or mystery novelCrime writers commit murder in print. This book shows writers how they can do it, explaining what the victim and the murder scene will look like afterwards, and what clues will give the game away. Chapters on police procedures in the UK, what happens in the courtroom and post mortems will help lend a convincing authority to every writer's work. Stuck for ideas? Pore through these pages to discover a wealth of inspiration and reduce time spent on research. Lost for words? Discover rigor mortis, corpus delicti and folie deux. Liberally sprinkled with examples from real life and fiction, this book is a reference must for every writer and would-be writer of crime fiction.




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