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🧶 What’s an amateur sleuth mystery? One of the most beloved subgenres in mystery fiction! They’re stories of an ordinary person, not a professional detective, who solves a crime.
📚 If you love cozy mysteries, classic whodunits, or Golden Age detective fiction, this episode is your guide to the amateur sleuth.
🕵️ The amateur sleuth has a long, rich history that spans from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple to Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey to modern cozy mystery series.
⚡️ I also tackle what I call the “special problems” of writing amateur sleuth mysteries, and I break down how the Polish mystery film In for a Murder solves each of the challenges.
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Podcasts Mentioned:
- S1E6 Her Royal Spyness
- Bonus: Murder on the S.S. Cleopatra by Sara Rosett
- S6E1 Agatha Christie
- S6E6 Dorothy L. Sayers
- S2 E5 – The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
- S4E5 Crime TV Shows for Cozy Mystery Readers
- S2E4 Mystery in Translation
- S2 E1 – Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- S2 E3 A Peculiar Combination
Books on Writing Fiction:
- Trope Thesaurus: Mystery and Thriller by Sara Rosett and Jennifer Hilt: https://books2read.com/mysteryandthriller/
- How to Outline a Cozy Mystery by Sara Roset: https://books2read.com/howtocozy
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