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The Craft of Crime: Conversations With Crime Writers
The Craft of Crime Conversations With Crime Writers Author:John C. Carr THE CRAFT OF CRIME is, quite simply, the best collection of conversations with top mystery writers ever put together. John C. Carr has interviewed Ruth Rendell, Peter Lovesey, Ed McBain, Dick Francis, Jane Langton, Gregory McDonald, Mark Smith, Robert B. Parker, Janwillem van de Wetering, June Thompson, James McClure, and Emma Lathen: an even do... more »zen of today's foremost practitioners of crime fiction. Carr's familiarity with, and love for, mystery writing is apparent, and he has the expert interviewer's knack of getting those interviewed to talk about themselves more fully than ever before. Here is how these writers got started, how they work, what they think of other writers, and much more. No mystery buff can fail to be delighted by these in-depth conversations. THE CRAFT OF CRIME will surely find a place on the bookshelves of all devotees of the genre.
John C. Carr's collection of interviews with Southern writers, KITE FLYING AND OTHER IRRATIONAL ACTS, won high praise. He was born in Mississippi, lives now in New Orleans, and has finished a detective novel.« less