gengelcox 's review for:

Colloquium on Crime: Eleven Renowned Mystery Writers Discuss Their Work by Robin W. Winks

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A collection of essays by crime/mystery writers on writing, mysteries (writing and field), and their own experience. I found these to be genuinely motivating, very interesting, and revealing. I’ve never thought to write a crime novel–I’ve always been an SF/F reader, and that’s what I feel I write when I write–but I enjoy mysteries, and have done so ever since I began reading. The first two adult books I remember reading, besides the Bible, was the complete O’Henry and Sherlock Holmes stories. It was interesting to find writers here with similar experiences to mine–in particular, [a:K.C. Constantine|543604|K.C. Constantine|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1396829841p2/543604.jpg] and his school problems. Of the writers in this volume ([a:Robert Barnard|8252|Robert Barnard|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1284403167p2/8252.jpg], [a:Rex Burns|170209|Rex Burns|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1357860677p2/170209.jpg], Constantine, [a:Dorothy Salisbury Davis|490350|Dorothy Salisbury Davis|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1391105003p2/490350.jpg], [a:Michael Gilbert|4818928|Michael Gilbert|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1476971389p2/4818928.jpg], [a:Donald Hamilton|114241|Donald Hamilton|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1291775970p2/114241.jpg], [a:Joseph Hansen|7737|Joseph Hansen|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1369326227p2/7737.jpg], [a:Tony Hillerman|26917|Tony Hillerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1281729229p2/26917.jpg], [a:Reginald Hill|8069|Reginald Hill|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1272813712p2/8069.jpg], [a:James McClure|82722|James McClure|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1352447514p2/82722.jpg], and [a:Robert B. Parker|397|Robert B. Parker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1423098317p2/397.jpg]), I’ve only read Parker. From these essays, I am interested in reading something else by all of them with the exception of Davis and Hill.