My editor provided very constructive edit suggestions for my upcoming mystery novel, Old Detectives Home. One very useful change was to eliminate the redundancy of reviewing the clues too often, as this slowed the pace of the story. The story is much tighter now with the changes made.
Here’s a preview of Old Detectives Home, due out in April: Imagine a retirement home populated with residents such as an aging Hercule Poirot and a dementia-suffering Sherlock Holmes and run by staff including Art Doyle, Dash Hammett and Dot Sayers. In this light-hearted spoof of the mystery genre, every character is either a namesake of a person from the mystery writing world or a character from a mystery novel. On anything but a dark and stormy night, a dead body is found. The staff managers find themselves unable to control the unruly old detectives. Mix in clues and red herrings galore as the cast of suspects investigate each other to figure out who done it.
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