School of Hard Knox Style:Trade Paperback THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITER

THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITER

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School of Hard Knox Style:Trade Paperback THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERRebels with a Cause! Nearly 100 years ago, The Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox of the famed Detection Club developed ten rulesa Decalogue he called themthat he felt were necessary to the full enjoyment of a detective story. Fairness with readers seemed an authors highest calling, andlo!the faculty for writing a good mystery story is rare." Writers (those heretics!) regularly bristle at a challenge, and being told that a literary twist is forbidden