Mystery Writing: Sidekicks
Sleuths and sidekicks, then and now. A look at how McDonald and Dodds inverts tropes.
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Sleuths and sidekicks, then and now. A look at how McDonald and Dodds inverts tropes.
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Recently I asked a number of writers why they felt this way. More to the point, I asked them what they meant by outlining.
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