But if the story is not well defined in your mind, or if it requires some complexity of plot, like the Detective Story, this plan can be followed to advantage in the completion of the work.
The Detective Story requires the most complex plot of any type of short story, for its interest depends solely upon the solution of the mystery presented in that plot.
His story is of the sensational style--sensational in a clean and wholesome way--and proves the author has surmounted the first difficulties which usually attack the man who attempts to write a 'detective story.
Real power in a detective story is shown in keeping the mystery veiled until the end, and this Mr. Burton has done.
It is a detective story without a detective, a love story without sentiment, yet teeming with subtlety and romance.
On this particular night, Moore welcomed four or five theater-goers back home, took them up to their suites and then sat for a long time uninterruptedly reading a detective story, which was his favorite brand of fiction.
Reads murder yarns all the time, and goes to detective story movies.
What happened was that, having left the letter in the post for some years while I formed fours and saluted, I picked up a magazine in the Mess one day and began to read a detective story.
I am prepared to state, though I do not propose to make a song about it, that every nice man loves a detective story.
But that must be the best of writing a detective story, that you can always make the lucky shots come off.
I did not know, nor did I bother to find out, whether it was possible, but this, as I said just now, is the beauty of writing a detective story.
Even the vulgarest melodrama or detective story can be good if it expresses something of the delight in sinister possibilities--the healthy lust for darkness and terror which may come on us any night in walking down a dark lane.
This stuff is fit for a detective story,' is often said, as who should say, 'This stuff is fit for an epic.
Not only is a detective story a perfectly legitimate form of art, but it has certain definite and real advantages as an agent of the public weal.
Bleak House is a little sombre; but then Bleak House is almost a detective story; perhaps it is only sombre in the sense that a detective storymust be sombre.
Still, Dickens wrote the book as a detective story; he wrote it as The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
A double robbery and a murder have given Mr. Kauffman the material for his clever detective story.
I'm not staying here to read a detective story, though I was glancing over this French one while I was waiting.
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