The Future of Mystery Writers: Can They Keep Thrilling Us?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Buzz: The first modern ‘detective story’ is considered to be The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe. First published in the April 1841 issue of Graham’s Magazine, the short story is about an amateur detective who sets out to solve the murders of a mother and daughter within a locked room of their apartment. (https://www.biblio.com/blog/2020/01/a-brief-history-of-mystery-books/#) The first mystery novel: Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1859). The Moonstone (1868): the first detective novel. The Woman in White is a gripping tale of murder, madness and mistaken identity that is so beloved it has never been out of print. The Moonstone set the standards for the detective novel formula – an enormous diamond is stolen from a Hindu temple and resurfaces at a birthday party in an English manor, and with numerous narrators and suspects, the story weaves through superstitions, romance, humor and suspicion to solve the puzzle. According to MasterClass.com, “When it comes to twenty-first century Americans’ tastes in fiction, few genres sell better than crime, mystery, and thriller…gripping, suspenseful, and full of intrigue until the very end. They routinely top New York Times bestseller lists, and many spawn larger series, leaving enthralled readers eager for each new book…Crime novels focus on a criminal who must be apprehended. Mystery novels on the question of who committed a particular crime. Thriller novels on suspense, dread, and the fear of a future crime. Let’s look at trends. * CrimeRead.com: “AJohn Thibault continuing golden age of women writing spy fiction, a new surge of rural noirs…a panoply of evil twins, clones, and doubles…an influx of temps and new mothers…the gothic revival continues.” * NovelSuspects.com: “Where the digital world truly delivers is among the elite hackers competing to crack the world’s most secure systems.” * BestScienceFictionBooks.com: “'The mystery' meets 'science fiction', a blend of genres…'Mystery Science Fiction'…'Noir Science Fiction'…’Detective Science Fiction'.” We’ll ask novelists John Thibault, Matt Cost, and Chris Wheatley and publisher Eddie Vincent for their take on The Future of Mystery Writers: Can They Keep Thrilling Us?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.2	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:27.3	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.7	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.1	Oh, here we are, the future of now. So happy to be here. We have an exciting
0:40.3	topic for you. Come on. It's been a year from, you know what, 2020 the year we all want to forget
0:45.6	and fast forward out of. What were you doing to distract? Come on. We couldn't go places. We
0:50.4	couldn't touch and hug the people we love. but a lot of us were reading or watching TV
0:55.4	and what was your favorite genre? Well, I will share with you. Mine was mystery, crime,
1:01.0	thrillers. I wanted to be distracted and diverted. So that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:05.6	And I have three novelists in the mystery genre, which is a vast genre. We'll talk about that. It's got all kinds of
1:11.6	branches and a publisher of novels as well. And our topic is the future of mystery writers. How will
1:17.5	they keep thrilling us? And that's what we want to know. So let me give you a little background here.
1:21.5	I discovered that the first modern detective story, and their quotes around that, is considered
1:26.1	to be the murders in the Rue
1:27.9	morgue. I'm sure all of you don't exactly have it on your shelf because it was in an 1841 April
1:34.1	issue of Graham's magazine, no relation to me or my relatives as far as I know, short story
1:38.8	by Edgar Allan Poe. Come on, you've all heard about him. The first mystery novel was Wilkie Collins's,
1:45.4	The Woman in White, 1859. It's so popular. It's still in print. I know, I know. And he also wrote
1:53.0	the Moonstone. A couple of years later, 1868, the first detective novel, and it set the standard.
1:59.3	An enormous diamond is stolen from a Hindu temple and resurfaces
2:03.1	at a birthday party where in an English manner and numerous narrators and suspects and the story
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