Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Howdunit). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Howdunit)

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.

Elaine Raco Chase has taught writing workshops at Skidmore College, Oglethorpe University.