WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT!So you want to write a mystery. There''s more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and turns of creating the twists and turns of a good mystery. Drawing on advice and examples from a host of the best names in mystery writing--from Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane to Scott Turow and Thomas Harris--plus some of his own prime plots, Larry Beinhart introduces you to your most indispensable partners in crime: *Character, plot, and procedure * The secrets to creating heroes, heroines, and villains ("All writers draw upon themselves and their experience. While the whole of yourself might not be capable of being either a serial killer or an FBI agent, there are parts in each of us that are capable of almost anything.") * The fine art of scripting the sex scene *The low-down on violence ("A crime novel without violence is like smoking pot without inhaling, sex without orgasm, or a hug without a squeeze." ) *And much more!From the opening hook to the final denouement, Larry Beinhart takes the mystery out of being a mystery writer.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elabourate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add to the mix a left-coast gumshoe named Broz who is trapped among cover-ups, undercover work, and his own morality, a cast of bicoastal desperate characters, and the stage is set for a powerful D.C./L.A. production. From Edgar award winning author Larry Beinhart, Wag the Dog was the most brilliant political satire of the last decade. It was made into a classic film by Barry Levinson, and, fortunately, is now back in print.

Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer, Katie and Tom. These factoids mysteriously capture the world's attention. But there's a flip side to this: fog facts. Fog facts are known but not known, the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. The "Downing Street Memo" is a fine example. This document revealed that the head of British intelligence had been informed by his Washington counterparts that the White House was cooking the books on the information it was using to justify a war in Iraq. Yet this was not big news in America. Why? In Fog Facts, Larry Beinhart tackles this question and shows how soft-core, public relations-style political lying has been raised to an art form.

Ex-private eye Tony Casella is lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to kill her superrich husband. That job leads to others and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages - and make a tidy profit to boot. Tony's problems seem to be over, but are they?

Der internationale Bestseller liegt jetzt endlich zum ersten Mal mit einem weiteren Vorwort und allen Ergänzungen des Autors in deutscher Fassung vor.Eine beinhart erzählte Realsatire aus der Küche des "großen Satans": Es ist die Zeit von George Buch senior, der um jeden Preis wiedergewählt werden will. Sein Berater Lee Atwater, exzellenter Stratege und Machtmensch, entwickelt noch auf dem Sterbebett einen Notfallplan, der die Wiederwahl garantieren soll: die Inszenierung eines Kriegs auf Hollywood-Niveau, ein Krieg als Medienereignis, ein Medienrauschen, das wie ein zäher Brei alle Wahrheiten erstickt. Der Thriller erschien 1993 in USA unter dem Titel American Hero und wurde ein internationaler Riesenerfolg. Unter dem Titel Wag the Dog, kongenial mit Dustin Hoffmann, Robert de Niro und Woody Harrelson verfilmt, kam eine stark veränderte Fassung 1997 ins Kino und wurde ebenfalls ein Welterfolg.

WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT!So you want to write a mystery. There''s more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and turns of creating the twists and turns of a good mystery. Drawing on advice and examples from a host of the best names in mystery writing--from Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane to Scott Turow and Thomas Harris--plus some of his own prime plots, Larry Beinhart introduces you to your most indispensable partners in crime: *Character, plot, and procedure * The secrets to creating heroes, heroines, and villains ("All writers draw upon themselves and their experience. While the whole of yourself might not be capable of being either a serial killer or an FBI agent, there are parts in each of us that are capable of almost anything.") * The fine art of scripting the sex scene *The low-down on violence ("A crime novel without violence is like smoking pot without inhaling, sex without orgasm, or a hug without a squeeze." ) *And much more!From the opening hook to the final denouement, Larry Beinhart takes the mystery out of being a mystery writer.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elabourate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add to the mix a left-coast gumshoe named Broz who is trapped among cover-ups, undercover work, and his own morality, a cast of bicoastal desperate characters, and the stage is set for a powerful D.C./L.A. production. From Edgar award winning author Larry Beinhart, Wag the Dog was the most brilliant political satire of the last decade. It was made into a classic film by Barry Levinson, and, fortunately, is now back in print.

Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer, Katie and Tom. These factoids mysteriously capture the world's attention. But there's a flip side to this: fog facts. Fog facts are known but not known, the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. The "Downing Street Memo" is a fine example. This document revealed that the head of British intelligence had been informed by his Washington counterparts that the White House was cooking the books on the information it was using to justify a war in Iraq. Yet this was not big news in America. Why? In Fog Facts, Larry Beinhart tackles this question and shows how soft-core, public relations-style political lying has been raised to an art form.

Ex-private eye Tony Casella is lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to kill her superrich husband. That job leads to others and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages - and make a tidy profit to boot. Tony's problems seem to be over, but are they?

Der internationale Bestseller liegt jetzt endlich zum ersten Mal mit einem weiteren Vorwort und allen Ergänzungen des Autors in deutscher Fassung vor.Eine beinhart erzählte Realsatire aus der Küche des "großen Satans": Es ist die Zeit von George Buch senior, der um jeden Preis wiedergewählt werden will. Sein Berater Lee Atwater, exzellenter Stratege und Machtmensch, entwickelt noch auf dem Sterbebett einen Notfallplan, der die Wiederwahl garantieren soll: die Inszenierung eines Kriegs auf Hollywood-Niveau, ein Krieg als Medienereignis, ein Medienrauschen, das wie ein zäher Brei alle Wahrheiten erstickt. Der Thriller erschien 1993 in USA unter dem Titel American Hero und wurde ein internationaler Riesenerfolg. Unter dem Titel Wag the Dog, kongenial mit Dustin Hoffmann, Robert de Niro und Woody Harrelson verfilmt, kam eine stark veränderte Fassung 1997 ins Kino und wurde ebenfalls ein Welterfolg.