Sue Grafton answers this question and many others in Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed by Stuart Kaminsky.
There are seventeen interviews in all, and the book has many black and white photographs of the writers and their homes and work spaces.
The late Evan Hunter/EdMcBain is included in what must be one of the last interviews before his death.
If you are an Elmore Leonard fan, or an aspiring mystery writer, you need to check out page 25 which lists his ten rules for writing, first of which is “Never open a book with weather.” Are you listening, Bulwer-Lytton fans?
Stuart Kaminsky, the book’s editor, is an acclaimed mystery author and has penned several popular series. His diverse characters include Abe Lieberman, Lew Fonesca, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, and Toby Peters.
Behind the Mystery and other books on American mystery writers can be found in the upper level 800s stacks under the Dewey number 813.0872. The British writers are shelved a little farther along under 823.0872.
Comments (1)
thank you for pointing me, an avid mystery reader, to an area of the library I never would have discovered otherwise.
Posted by ann | October 15, 2006 6:32 PM
Posted on October 15, 2006 18:32