Title: How to Write a Crime Novel: 9 Tips for Writing Crime Fiction - 2021 - MasterClass
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How to Write a Crime Novel: 9 Tips for Writing Crime Fiction
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What Is a Crime Novel?
3 Examples of Crime Novels
9 Tips for Writing a Crime Novel
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What Is a Crime Novel? 3 Examples of Crime Novels
9 Tips for Writing a Crime Novel
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What Is a Crime Novel? A crime novel focuses on a crime that sets off an unfolding narrative that builds toward a major reveal or resolution—who did the crime, why did they do it, and how were they brought to justice? While some crime novels are told through the point of view of a criminal, most follow an investigator as they dive deeper into an often increasingly dark and complicated web of ill deeds, deception, complex timelines, and mixed motives. Crime subgenres include whodunnits, legal thrillers, hardboiled detective stories, noir fiction, spy novels, and psychological thrillers. 3 Examples of Crime Novels
Crime novels and short stories have been a popular form of fiction for nearly two centuries. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (1841): Among the earliest well-known works of crime fiction are Edgar Allan Poe's short stories about the detective C. Auguste Dupin.