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How Mysterious
how mysterious!
Oct. 21, 2019
All the Mystery-Writing Insight and Advice You Could Ever Need
The 12 stories featured in our How Mysterious! series serve as an online university* for budding crime writers. (*Unaccredited)
By
Vulture Editors
how mysterious!
Oct. 21, 2019
How I Learned to Write Mysteries the
Mystic River
Way
By deconstructing Dennis Lehane’s best seller, Angie Kim was able to shape her own debut novel.
By
Angie Kim
how mysterious
Oct. 18, 2019
The Crimes Never End: A Guide to Mystery’s Biggest, Longest-Lasting Franchises
The Boxcar Children? Hardy Boys? Women’s Murder Club? Still out there solving.
By
Zach Schonfeld
how mysterious!
Oct. 18, 2019
How ‘Who Shot Mr. Burns?’ Unlocked
The Simpsons
’ Potential
Writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein look back on how one mystery led to a beloved two-part episode and a parade of marketing stunts.
By
Ramsey Ess
as told tos
Oct. 18, 2019
How to Write Hercule Poirot in 2019
Author Sophie Hannah on continuing Agatha Christie’s classic series — and why the detective definitely shouldn’t have a Twitter account.
As told to
Lila Shapiro
how mysterious
Oct. 17, 2019
‘Heel It Now, Dig?’: Rian Johnson Revisits the Mystery of
Brick
13 years later, the director of
Knives Out
walks us through the lessons he learned making his high-school-noir debut.
By
Nate Jones
how mysterious
Oct. 16, 2019
The Secret to a Good Mystery Movie? It Isn’t the Surprise
Michael Green, the writer behind
Blade Runner 2049
and two Agatha Christie adaptations, reveals the key to resurrecting a whodunit for the screen.
By
Chris Lee
how mysterious
Oct. 16, 2019
Tana French Is Our Best Living Mystery Writer
With her
Dublin Murder Squad series, she has built a world that’s more George R.R. Martin than Agatha Christie — minus the beheadings.
By
Hillary Kelly
how mysterious
Oct. 16, 2019
One Neat Trick to Writing Great Mystery Plots
The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.
By
Charles Finch
how mysterious!
Oct. 16, 2019
Emergence
’s Showrunners on How to Build a Puzzle-Box Show
Step 1: Don’t be afraid to answer your mysteries.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
tv review
Oct. 15, 2019
Nancy Drew
Brings the Character’s Legacy Full Circle
The CW’s new take on the iconic heroine looks less like the original “girl detective” than it does like everything she inspired.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
Oct. 15, 2019
8 Unforgettable Detective-Themed Comedy Sketches
Looking back at times when mystery and humor mingled, from
Monty Python
to
Key and Peele
.
By
Ramsey Ess
how mysterious!
Oct. 14, 2019
13 Mystery-Writing Tricks Used by Acclaimed Novelists
Including the Bullseye Method and the Don Draper Principle.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
nancy drew anew
Oct. 9, 2019
Nancy Drew Is Not Who You Remember
The redheaded detective is back in a CW reboot, but the mystery remains: is she more than endlessly recyclable IP?
By
Molly Young
how mysterious!
Oct. 3, 2018
Mystery Writer Tana French’s Tips for Crafting a Red Herring
How the author of
In the Woods
and
The Witch Elm
leads the reader down the wrong trail.
By
Tana French
As told to
Lila Shapiro