On handbooks: I though Patricia Highsmith actually wrote an
entire book in
the 60s about writing thrillers. Is it just an article? I'm
more interested
in the handbook in what it says about the author than what it
says, so to
speak. I have a 1976 copy of the Mystery Writer's Handbook by
the MWA
(purchased I think for 25 cents), and it includes articles by
Frederic Brown,
Avallone, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout, Stanley Ellin,
McGivern, Pronzini,
and Masur, among others. It's great fun.
Doug Levin
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