Technique of the Mystery Story
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166
1913
English
- Introduction
- The Eternal Curious
- The Literature of Mystery
- The History of Mystery
- Ghost Stories
- Riddle Stories
- Detective Stories
- The Detective
- Deduction
- Applied Principles
- The Rationale of Ratiocination
- Close Observation
- Other Detectives of Fiction
- Portraits
- Devious Devices
- Footprints and Fingerprints
- More Devices
- Fake Devices
- Murder in General
- Persons in the Story
- The Handling of the Crime
- The Motive
- Evidence
- Structure
- Plots
- Further Advices
- Final Advices
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. - Summary by J. Berg Esenwein, editor of The Writer’s Library published by The Home Correspondence School, from Introduction
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