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A difficult problem for the crime writers of New York it would seem.
Read about it in the New York Times
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THE SUPREME ACCOLADE for crime fiction has its origins in the Crossed Red Herrings Award, invented for the Crime Writers’ Association in 1955 by John Creasey, whose centenary falls this year. Winston Graham won the first award. Five years later it was renamed the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction.
The shortlist is on The Times Online’s […]

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IT’S time to let your imagination run wild again in the fourth annual Short Crime Story competition.
The Harrogate Advertiser series has once again teamed up with the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival to offer budding writers the chance to flex their creative muscles.

Harrogate Advertiser Short Story Competition
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Turns out they’re threatening to take authors BUY NOW buttons away if they don’t use their Print on Demand Services.
Here come the lawyers.
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Yes, you can be guilty of murder even if you didn’t fire the fatal shot. Two strangers involved in a shootout were arrested. one has been released for lack of evidence, the other awaits sentencing after being found guilty of murder.
After the abolition of the double jeopardy laws in the UK, it is noe possible […]

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Yet again, the British Government is targeting gang culture.
Time to get on my soapbox I think.
Why do kids or adults for that matter join gangs?
Experience from the US points to their being many underlying causes for gang membership.

A sense of belonging, usually stemming from lack of parental control due to the breakdown of the traditional family […]

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Did you see Gone in 60 Seconds? today I’m going to talk about one of the hardest things when writing a crime fiction novel. We see it in the movies all the time and we feel we have to have it in our novel to give us the ultimate action and drama.
What am I talking […]

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If you read any modern crime fiction novel. the Glock is a weapon you’ll likely come accross in your travels.
From the revolutionary Glock 17 which combined the features of an ordinary pistol with the firing speed of an automatic weapon, Glock handguns have now become standard throughout many law enforcement agencies around the world.
Glock now […]

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Check this lot out. Makes you think about the liberties screenwriters and directors take with scripts.
Things We’ve learned from the movies.
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An 18-year-old burglar who vandalised a children’s campsite building was caught because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene, a court has heard. Police found him after entering his name in a computer system. Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: “This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in […]

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