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 ...

One of Gamain’s short stories that encourages—-and really gets even better with—-repeat readings, “Murder Mysteries” is a tale about everything from free will and determinism to love ...

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 ...

That doesn't make their mysteries any less gripping, mind you, but for those who like a few answers in their true crime stories, this one provides. It ran from 2010-2016, followed by Unusual ...