Crime Writing and Writers....
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Anton Chekhov, Edith Wharton, W. Somerset Maughan, P. G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley, John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates, Agatha Christi, etc.
The previous are a list of skilled writers who wrote mysteries. Great authors who wrote short stories and or novels. There are hundreds more I could list. Why, then, oh why, do many say, "mystery is not worth the effort to read. What do I get out of it? Sci-Fi is really imaginative; Historical Romance gives information on history; other fiction is culturally based and informs us.
Mystery short stories or novels do what for us? I answer: they inform with cultural settings in particular time frames; and interesting characters from the normal every day person to society's throwaways; from the elite to the powerful to the criminal. While examining these characters we visit interesting and sometimes stunningly absurd plots. Best of all, we often receive a very important assurance from the author related to the possibility that good will prevail over evil. Murder mystery writing frequently presents the Ten Commandments and the punishment from a character's ignoring their importance. Murder mystery writing is one of the last moral constructs presented in fiction. Think of it as a presentation of centuries of philosophy centered in fiction. Perhaps it is attending church. We find peace in the solving. The murdered finally gets attention; the murderer is discovered, hopefully punished, and best of all the WHY is discovered.
I write the West Side (Massachusetts) MCU Captain Rudy Beauregard Mystery Novels. Beauregard believes it is his mission to find justice for the murdered, although he is not always able to deliver perfect justice. After all, he is only a police detective, not judge and jury. His detectives believe in him and his pursuits of justice. They are all relatively good and normal professionals dealing with sociopaths, psychopaths, the temporary fallen from society, the innocents, the suffering. Although I write police procedural novels, I write of culture and citizens, and life and morality.
K. B. Pellegrino, Author
The previous are a list of skilled writers who wrote mysteries. Great authors who wrote short stories and or novels. There are hundreds more I could list. Why, then, oh why, do many say, "mystery is not worth the effort to read. What do I get out of it? Sci-Fi is really imaginative; Historical Romance gives information on history; other fiction is culturally based and informs us.
Mystery short stories or novels do what for us? I answer: they inform with cultural settings in particular time frames; and interesting characters from the normal every day person to society's throwaways; from the elite to the powerful to the criminal. While examining these characters we visit interesting and sometimes stunningly absurd plots. Best of all, we often receive a very important assurance from the author related to the possibility that good will prevail over evil. Murder mystery writing frequently presents the Ten Commandments and the punishment from a character's ignoring their importance. Murder mystery writing is one of the last moral constructs presented in fiction. Think of it as a presentation of centuries of philosophy centered in fiction. Perhaps it is attending church. We find peace in the solving. The murdered finally gets attention; the murderer is discovered, hopefully punished, and best of all the WHY is discovered.
I write the West Side (Massachusetts) MCU Captain Rudy Beauregard Mystery Novels. Beauregard believes it is his mission to find justice for the murdered, although he is not always able to deliver perfect justice. After all, he is only a police detective, not judge and jury. His detectives believe in him and his pursuits of justice. They are all relatively good and normal professionals dealing with sociopaths, psychopaths, the temporary fallen from society, the innocents, the suffering. Although I write police procedural novels, I write of culture and citizens, and life and morality.
K. B. Pellegrino, Author
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