According to dictionary.com mystery is defined as anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown. Currently the best authors of mystery are James Patterson, Lee Child, John Grisham and Tom Clancy. They all are highly recognized mystery authors and have been successfully writing series and bestselling mystery novels for today’s readers. Mystery books have been famous for years, amazing mysteries that where written in the early 1900’s are still popular today like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Where None. Today’s authors are putting out amazing new mysteries novels like Dan Browns Da Vinci Code. I have read both of these books and have enjoyed them equally. They are both well written books that showed me that people wrote good books in the past and that the key concepts have stayed the same. Key parts of mystery books are having a good plot. The plot is everything. In a mystery the plot is important because it’s what gets the reader hooked. It has to be plausible and it has to keep going. It can’t get boring because they will put it down. Another important thing is that the author must introduce the mystery at most three chapters in or the reader will feel like it has started to slow and will give up on the book. The author must do research prior to writing the book so they can add real evidence or facts to make it seem more reasonable.
Authors that put these things together to create a good mystery can be rewarded with awards for their novels. One of the most prestigious of these awards is the Edgar awards, which is named after Edger Allan Poe. My book is The Sherlockian, it’s an interesting story about the original author of the Sherlock Holmes series and a group of fans in the present. It is well written and it has a good plot and follows the rules that I stated above. The mystery was introduced early in the book so I was hooked in immediately, and wanted to keep reading and try to guess the answer to the mystery
Work cited=
http://awards.omnimystery.com/mystery-awards.html
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
solving mysteries by myself
According to dictionary.com mystery is defined as anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown. Currently the best authors of mystery are James Patterson, Lee Child, John Grisham and Tom Clancy. They all are highly recognized mystery authors and have been successfully writing series and bestselling mystery novels for today’s readers. Mystery books have been famous for years, amazing mysteries that where written in the early 1900’s are still popular today like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Where None. Today’s authors are putting out amazing new mysteries novels like Dan Browns Da Vinci Code. I have read both of these books and have enjoyed them equally. They are both well written books that showed me that people wrote good books in the past and that the key concepts have stayed the same. Key parts of mystery books are having a good plot. The plot is everything. In a mystery the plot is important because it’s what gets the reader hooked. It has to be plausible and it has to keep going. It can’t get boring because they will put it down. Another important thing is that the author must introduce the mystery at most three chapters in or the reader will feel like it has started to slow and will give up on the book. The author must do research prior to writing the book so they can add real evidence or facts to make it seem more reasonable.
Authors that put these things together to create a good mystery can be rewarded with awards for their novels. One of the most prestigious of these awards is the Edgar awards, which is named after Edger Allan Poe. My book is The Sherlockian, it’s an interesting story about the original author of the Sherlock Holmes series and a group of fans in the present. It is well written and it has a good plot and follows the rules that I stated above. The mystery was introduced early in the book so I was hooked in immediately, and wanted to keep reading and try to guess the answer to the mystery
Work cited=
http://awards.omnimystery.com/mystery-awards.html
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