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    Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure

    Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure

    "Knowing what people are expecting allows you to subvert the trope. Expectation is its own red herring, built right into your reader."

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    Bringing the Traditional Murder Mystery to India

    Bringing the Traditional Murder Mystery to India

    RV Raman has loved Agatha Christie style murder mysteries his whole life. But where were the stories from India?

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    Seven Great Thrillers That Take Readers to Far-Flung Places

    Seven Great Thrillers That Take Readers to Far-Flung Places

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    'Rebecca' at Eighty: The Women Behind the Hitchcock Classic

    In 1938, Joan Harrison read a galley of Daphne Du Maurier's masterpiece. She wouldn't rest until she had the rights to adapt it.

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    The 52 Best, Worst, and Strangest Draculas of All-Time, Ranked

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