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FIRST THINGS
To start a mystery, before you create the author of the plot
behind the plot, there are two things you need to know:
when and where the story will take place.
I'm planning to write my mystery in the present, but you
may want to write your mystery in the past or in the future.
It's a subjective choice. Write what you like to read—that's
the best advice I can give.
Okay, my time is the present. How about place?
While doing a workshop in Montana a few years ago, I
thought it would be a great place to set a novel. The scenery
is strikingly beautiful, and the people are open and friendly
and independent-minded. Self-sufficiency is a virtue. You
don't find a lot of phoniness in people there. For somebody
who lives in the hubbub, glitter, and crush of the San Francisco
Bay Area, visiting Montana was like going back in time
to the frontier days. I found a lot of colorful characters there,
right out of Zane Grey.
Okay, pardner, I'm going to set my damn good mystery
in Montana. In fact, this is my idea to get me started, to get
my creative fire lit. I want to write about Montana.
Hey, you might say, that's not much of an idea. Well, it's
enough to get my creative fires lit, so that's enough for me.
When you create your mystery, you should create not
just a place, but a place where dramatic events are happening
besides the mystery. It will give the story a greater sense of
reality and there will be conflicts happening besides the ones
involved in the investigation. Creating such conflicts in the
background will give your story depth. Some of these
actions will impact the murder mystery, but most won't.
Here's one of the greatest examples of dramatic events
happening in the background: Hans Hellmut Kirst's Night
of the Generals (1963), which was made into a gripping film
starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. The hero/detective
is after a psychotic murderer of prostitutes, while in the
background an assassination plot against Hitler is being
planned and carried out by high-ranking officers in the German
army. Officers who are suspects in the murder investigation.
How's that for a damn good idea?
The Maltese Falcon is a murder mystery being conducted
against the background of the search for a fabulous jewelencrusted
statue of a falcon.
In Cara Black's Murder in Belleville (2002), the murderer
is being sought against the dramatic background of a siege
situation involving terrorists who have taken over a school
and are holding the children hostage.
In Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent (1987), there's a dramatic
political campaign going on in the background.
There are, of course, good, damn good, and even great
mysteries where there are no dramatic events unfolding in
the background. But having them is a way of giving your
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story more drama and complications, which will make it
more exciting. Anyway, it is one of the options you might
consider when creating the setting for your damn good
mystery.
Okay, so for my fictional purposes, I'll make up a place in
Montana. A small town. Let's call it "North of Nowhere,
Montana." Let's say there once was a town called "Nowhere"
and this is just north of there, so they called it "North of
Nowhere." Nowhere was, let us say, mostly destroyed by
fire in 1894; now the only thing that's left is a brothel. We'll
have the story take place during elk-hunting season. A
friend of mine is vehemently opposed to blood sports and I
think this, too, is good stuff for the background: an elkhunting
protest.
So far, then, I know when the story is going to happen
(the present), where this story is going to happen (Montana),
and I know the drama in the background, a protest of elk
hunting. For a title, let's call it A Murder in Montana.
Next, who will be our murderer?
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