Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Howdunit)
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Did you ever want your protagonist to make a citizen's arrest, but you didn't know the process? If the answer is yes, then turn to this volume from the Writer's Digest Howdunit series. It has all the information your sleuth needs for busting open the big case, including an overview on Internet hacking and descriptions of how real crime victims have solved their own cases. This book is recommended for mystery fans as well as scribes. I wish I had this back when I was reading those Encyclopedia Brown stories!
Midwest Book Review
Amateur Detectives is a professional writer's guide to how private citizens solve criminal cases. Amateur Detectives covers all the information needed to write an exciting chase, keep the amateur-crime-solver novels and stories factually accurate and completely convincing. Amateur Detectives investigates why high-tech policing hasn't run off the low-tech amateur; jobs that fit neatly with amateur sleuthing; intuition, gossip and other information-gathering methods; how to find out all about anyone; how the Internet can speed an amateur sleuth to answers; how today's technological wonders can help the amateur detective; the law as it applies to amateur detectives; state-by-state gun laws; state-by-state citizens' arrest powers; the Freedom of Information Act; and how real amateurs solved real crimes. Amateur Detectives is a valuable reference book for any writer seeking to make their mystery fiction credible.
Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Howdunit),Elaine Raco Chase,Anne Wingate,Writer's Digest Books,089879725X,Authorship,Composition & Creative Writing - Genre Fiction,Detective and mystery stories,Handbooks, manuals, etc,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Mystery And Suspense Fiction,Mystery fiction,Reference,Technique,Writing Skills
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