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• Notice that we haven’t solved a tremendous amount yet, but it becomes easier to feel the gaps. Simply having some notes down on paper means that you can concentrate on particular issues that occur to you as they arise, without having to struggle to remember the entire edifice.
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• Keeping a rich array of connections between your protagonists is helpful. So, very often, is keeping things within a family, because familial connections are the strongest ones of all. (Which is why, by the way, so much powerful literature makes use of them. When Darth Vader says, ‘Luke, I am your father,’ we know that what he says matters intensel...
• In constructing a strong mystery, therefore, you need to approach things a little differently, and that means working backwards. Determine the crime. Determine what seems to have been going on (the story that most of the police will believe). Determine what has really been going (the story that your detective will uncover). If you want, you can sta...