The Mystery Short Story. Shedunnit. A consideration of crime fiction’s more compact incarnation. ... — How to Write a Mystery: a Handbook from Mystery Writers of America, ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

The title of British author Kate Atkinson’s new short-story collection, “Normal Rules Don’t Apply,” could easily be repurposed for an eventual memoir.Atkinson, who didn’t start writing ...

Adapted from a short story told in reverse, the film veers between speculative mystery and coming-of-age drama, but only works up to a point. Like King’s story — one of four novellas collected ...

Short story: a Christmas Eve murder mystery in old Shanghai’s French Concession. It’s Christmas Eve in Shanghai in 1930 and a mysterious guest has accepted an invitation to the Carmichaels ...

Each short story in the anthology is based on a song title from the mega-selling album. AC/DC’s Back in Black Inspires New Book of Murder Mysteries, Including New Jack Reacher Story Spencer Kaufman ...