Private investigations : mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders of their lives

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"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 f...

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Detective and mystery stories, American Authorship

Detective and mystery stories, English Authorship

Novelists, American 20th century Biography

Novelists, English 20th century Biography

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ISBN:

9781580059213
158005921X

Edition:

First edition

Description:

vi, 311 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

Introduction : solving the mystery / Victoria Zackheim
Ghosted / Hallie Ephron
Plot twists : this writer's life / Jeffrey Deaver
An extra child / Sulari Gentill
Field notes à la Maigret from Paris / Cara Black
Lydia and Jack / Connie May Fowler
The land of the morning calm (and other military mysteries) / Martin Limón
The clay that we shape / William Kent Kruege
Origins and destinations / Ausma Zehanat Khan
A trick of the light / Kristen Lepionka
The mystery of deception / Lynn Cahoon
The long shadow of war / Rhys Bowen
I don't know this word / Rachel Howzell Hallie
The beams keep falling / Steph Cha
Writing about war / Jacqueline Winspear
Can we live without mystery? / Tasha Alexander
Godfathers, Nancy Drew, and cats / Carole Nelson Douglas
The mystery of my lost voice / Caroline Leavitt
Remembering the dead / Charles Todd
Nuns, magic, and Steven King / Robert Dugoni
I want to be a magician / Anne Perry

LCCN:

2019032305

Control Number:

2905936

Other Authors:

Zackheim, Victoria, editor

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