...For a long time there was an attitude that novels of mystery and suspense were unvalued stepchildren in the literary world. Only fifteen years ago, on a national television program, I was asked if I ever hoped to write a "good" book someday, one that wasn't in the suspense genre? I replied that I had no idea about my own work, but a few mystery/suspense stories were hanging in there. For example, Oepidus Rex, Hamlet and MacBeth.
Fortunately, that kind of question isn't asked too often anymore...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Nice comeback...
In the preface to the 1993 mass market paperback Malice Domestic 2, an anthology of short stories, Mary Higgins Clark wrote:
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