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Mystery is a genre of fiction which is mainly focused on the investigation of a crime. Mystery normally involves a detective fiction or crime fiction. In other words it is a short story or novel, in which a detective investigates and tries to solve a crime.

Mystery fiction can involve a supernatural or thriller mystery where the solution does not have to be logical or even involve a crime.

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Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Detectives can come in any form.

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Agatha Christie's popular characters that she writes about are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Both are detectives that solve different crimes throughout her books.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famously known for his creation of Sherlock Holmes, master detective, who has starred in all of Conan Doyle's books. The character was so popular that when Conan Doyle's killed him in 'The Reichenbach falls', he received so much hatred from his fans he had to bring him back.

Dan Brown is a mystery and thriller writer who his best known for his book 'The Da Vinci Code'.

Edward Stratemeyer is known for his creation of Nancy Drew, one of the most popular characters who has been re-written countless times.

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Generations of different Sherlock Holmes.

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Things you need to know about writing mysteries

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Things you need to know about writing mysteries

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1. Death is what's for dinner. Not all mystery writing needs a murder, you can always have a crime (robbery) take place instead.

2. Find a sleuth. Make sure you don't rush the crime that takes place. Take your time, plan it well and make sure your criminal does not get caught. Plan the start when your sleuth enters. People will turn the pages if they find the crime and the detective interesting.

3. What's more interesting than your detective having an emotionally damaged soul? Nothing. Make your detective interesting, is he physically impaired, divorced, let your imagination run wild.

4. Your detective needs a reason to track down the criminal. Why?

5. If you want to have a backstory for your character, make sure you don't add it in all at once. Bit by bit, makes the reader want to read on to find out about your characters' past.

6. Try and construct and memorize your landscape that your book is set in. Once you know more about where your cast is living you can describe it and make it more interesting.

7.Murder: It's dying, with style. Mystery is fiction so take down your victim with as much creativity as you can muster.

8. When it comes to the big reveal scene of 'who dun it', make sure it is interesting and surprising. Figure of the criminals method, opportunity and motives before you start writing.

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1. Start by reading a few mystery books, in the genre you want to write in. Make sure you pay attention to details (conversations, everyday events etc.) and try to think of a plot developed along those lines. Make sure you do some research about the time or place that you want to set your mystery in, this way you can start to develop your story.

2. Start to develop your main characters. What are their personality? What do they look like? What quirky/faults do they have? Anything that will make you understand and get to now you main characters.

3. Include a Red Herring. A Red Herring is someone the reader believes is the criminal. It is best to make you readers believe it is the Red Herring until they find out the real criminal.

4. Come up with a plot. If you have more then one plot at first, don't worry.  Know you have a selection to pick from.

5. Start to write your first draft, try to get down all your ideas at first and then go back and structure it probably.

6. Write your second draft, this time get someone else to read it, so that you get constructive criticism.

7. Continue to write and edit it. Then ending is one of the most important parts in writing and make sure you tie up any lose ends, unless it has a cliffhanger and you intend to write a sequel.

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I remember reading this book in Year 8, when we had a look at Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing. I love that in each Sherlock Holmes case it usually begins with Watson as the narrator.  It engages the reader and makes them feel part of the case. It was one of my favorite books featuring Sherlock Holmes and still is. It involves a young lady turning up on the door step of 221B Baker Street, asking for the assistance of Sherlock and Watson. The case begins with Sherlock being able to figure out the girls' personality by her appearance.  This is similar to the BBC's Sherlock, which means that Sherlock's personality hasn't changed that much. The case involves the young lady being contacted by two men who knew her uncle (died in South Africa). She is hired by one, to teach his daughter music, while the other one is strange towards her. Also she is continuously being followed by a man on a bicycle anytime she goes to visit her mother. Sherlock and Watsons job is to find out who the mysterious cyclist is. Here is a snippet from the book:

FROM the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive, Mr. Sherlock Holmes
was a very busy man. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any
difficulty in which he was not consulted during those eight years, and there
were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most intricate and
extraordinary character, in which he played a prominent part. Many startling
successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period
of continuous work. As I have preserved very full notes of all these cases, and
was myself personally engaged in many of them, it may be imagined that it is no
easy task to know which I should select to lay before the public. I shall,
however, preserve my former rule, and give the preference to those cases which
derive their interest not so much from the brutality of the crime as from the
ingenuity and dramatic quality of the solution. For this reason I will now lay
before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary
cyclist of Charlington, and the curious sequel of our investigation, which
culminated in unexpected tragedy.

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His name was nameless. He was never known. This is a great example of a mystery story beginning . The audience already wants to know more about the character