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The Technique of the Mystery Story

Carolyn Wells

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For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwearied through miles of printed pages, and if only the problem has been worth while, and its pursuit has led along surprising ways, past shuddery thickets and over fearsome bridges, my soul has returned to sober affairs refreshed and content. In a word, here is a remarkable volume which shows us how the wheels go round, not by dogmatic statement, but by an amazing breadth and variety of citation and quotation, showing not only what great mystery writers have thought of their art, but illustrating by apposite examples how they secured their effects.

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Community Reviews

Better than you'd think. Very dated, but full of good sensible advice on constructing and writing a mystery novel along early 20th C. lines. Wells wrote some terrible mysteries but she had her theories down fine.

This hasn’t particularly aged well if you’re looking for writing advice in the mystery genre but it provides us with a fascinating look into the past and it names many classic stories most people won’t even have heard of. Today it may read more like a history book about mystery books rather than an

Published over a century ago, this is so old now that much of the content is a mere curiosity, not to be taken as serious advice by any budding writer of crime fiction. It is before Agatha Christie, before hard boiled detectives, before police procedurals, before the historical crime fiction boom. B