Chaz, Karen, and Jeannie sit around talking about their favorite crime and mystery novels. What makes a crime or mystery work? How has the genre changed over time? What is believable vs. credible for the writer?
Mentions from Episode 33:
- Mickey Spillane – The Deep
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
- Barbara Hambley’s – A Free Man of Color
- Inspector Lynley Mysteries
- The Cat Who…
- Val McDermid
- Agatha Christie – Train murder is fun!
- How do you find an agent?
- Chekhov’s Gun: It comes from Anton Chekhov’s famous book writing advice: ‘If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there. ‘ In other words, everything that is introduced in a story needs to have a function.
- Another view on the Gun, and discussion therein
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Thomas Harris
- That British Serial Killer Chaz mentioned
- NAACP official asked to give up a seat recently
- How do you write a Synopsis
- What is a MacGuffin
- Columbo
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Thin Man
- The Saint
- Veronica Mars
- Robin voted dead
- Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (In which Jeannie says Chaz is wrong, as this is a true crime novel.)
- Karen’s podcast – Headlong: Running from COPS
- Malcolm Gladwell novels
