Amateur Detectives

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Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases

Author: Elaine Raco Chase, Anne Wingate
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Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Let Amateur Detectives help you write an exciting chase. Here you’ll find the information you need to keep your amateur-crime-solver novels and stories factually accurate, completely convincing. Open this book and investigate why high-tech policing hasn’t run off the low-tech amateur; jobs that fit neatly with amateur sleuthing; intuition, gossip and other information-gathering methods; how to find out all about anyone; how the Internet can speed your sleuth to answers; how today’s technological wonders can help your detective; the law as it applies to amateur detectives; gun laws, state by state; citizens’ arrest powers, state by state; the Freedom of Information Act; and how real amateurs solved real crimes.
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Did you ever want your protagonist to make a citizen’s arrest, but you didn’t know the process? If the answer is yes, then turn to this volume from the Writer’s Digest Howdunit series. It has all the information your sleuth needs for busting open the big case, including an overview on Internet hacking and descriptions of how real crime victims have solved their own cases. This book is recommended for mystery fans as well as scribes. I wish I had this back when I was reading those Encyclopedia Brown stories!

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