Private investigations : mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders in their lives /
Private investigations : mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders in their lives /
edited by Victoria Zackheim.
- First edition.
- vi, 311 pages ; 21 cm.
Introduction : solving the mystery / Ghosted / Plot twists : this writer's life / An extra child / Field notes à la Maigret from Paris / Lydia and Jack / The land of the morning calm (and other military mysteries) / The clay that we shape / Origins and destinations / A trick of the light / The mystery of deception / The long shadow of war / I don't know this word / The beams keep falling / Writing about war / Can we live without mystery? / Godfathers, Nancy Drea, and cats / The mystery of my lost voice / Remembering the dead / Nuns, magic, and Steven King / I want to be a magician / Victoria Zackheim -- Hallie Ephron -- Jeffrey Deaver -- Sulari Gentill -- Cara Black -- Connie May Fowler -- Martin Limón -- William Kent Kruege -- Ausma Zehanat Khan -- Kristen Lepionka -- Lynn Cahoon -- Rhys Bowen -- Rachel Howzell Hallie -- Steph Cha -- Jacqueline Winspear -- Tasha Alexander -- Carole Nelson Douglas -- Caroline Leavitt -- Charles Todd -- Robert Dugoni -- Anne Perry.
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she lost her voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from writers' imaginations, and more"--
9781580059213 158005921X
2019032305
GBC034735 bnb
019736400 Uk
Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
Detective and mystery stories, American--Authorship.
Detective and mystery stories, English--Authorship.
Biographies.
Introduction : solving the mystery / Ghosted / Plot twists : this writer's life / An extra child / Field notes à la Maigret from Paris / Lydia and Jack / The land of the morning calm (and other military mysteries) / The clay that we shape / Origins and destinations / A trick of the light / The mystery of deception / The long shadow of war / I don't know this word / The beams keep falling / Writing about war / Can we live without mystery? / Godfathers, Nancy Drea, and cats / The mystery of my lost voice / Remembering the dead / Nuns, magic, and Steven King / I want to be a magician / Victoria Zackheim -- Hallie Ephron -- Jeffrey Deaver -- Sulari Gentill -- Cara Black -- Connie May Fowler -- Martin Limón -- William Kent Kruege -- Ausma Zehanat Khan -- Kristen Lepionka -- Lynn Cahoon -- Rhys Bowen -- Rachel Howzell Hallie -- Steph Cha -- Jacqueline Winspear -- Tasha Alexander -- Carole Nelson Douglas -- Caroline Leavitt -- Charles Todd -- Robert Dugoni -- Anne Perry.
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she lost her voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from writers' imaginations, and more"--
9781580059213 158005921X
2019032305
GBC034735 bnb
019736400 Uk
Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
Detective and mystery stories, American--Authorship.
Detective and mystery stories, English--Authorship.
Biographies.