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Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.


Nancy B. Brewer


#france #historical-ficiton #mystery #romance #victorian

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight." ---from my newest release "Garnet" If you have not read this little book you are in for a treat! http://nancybbrewer.com/garnet-order-...


Nancy B. Brewer


#historical-mystery #historical-romance #historical-romance

Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.


Lois Duncan


#goal-setting

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.


Rick Aster


#writing-craft #writing-craft

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law." (Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949)


Raymond Chandler


#mysteries #solution #technique #writing #writing-craft

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence...The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?


Arthur Conan Doyle


#mystery #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of gaslight and smoke, Holmes would sit, digesting the day's papers, puffing on his long pipe, injecting himself with cocaine. He would pop smoke rings into the gloom, waiting for something, anything, to pierce into the belly of his study and release the promise of adventure; of clues to interpret; of, at last he would plead, a puzzle he could not solve. And after each story he would return here, into the dark room, and die day by day of boredom. The darkness of his study was his cage, but also the womb of his genius.


Graham Moore


#holmes #mystery #sherlock #sherlockian #sherlock-holmes

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.


J. J. Abrams


#best #bigger #box #down #excited






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