The Crime Writer's Handbook (Allison & Busby Writers' Guides)
Publisher: Allison & Busby LTD
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780749003456
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Rhetoric; Writing & editing guides; Reference; Handbooks & Manuals; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Writing Skills; Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction; Composition & Creative Writing - Genre Fiction; Language Arts & Disciplines / Authorship; Composition & Creative Writing - General
First sentence: The other day I was talking to a serving policeman, who is also a devotee of crime fiction, and he said that he was astonished at the lack of elementary knowledge of police procedure in a book he had been reading by an established novelist.