The mysterious femme fatale. The jaded private eye... ...ements of noir fiction with his 1930 breakthrough novel , The Maltese Falcon. But how did Hammet dream up... ...erican classic.THE REAL MCCOYUnlike other mystery novelists , Dashiell Hammett really was a detective. Born in... ...from a journalism class:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/13/Dashiell-Hammetts-The-Maltese-Falcon/Did you know that Napoléon Bonaparte tried... ...ry? Well, if Saddam Hussein could write a romance novel , why not Napoléon? In 2007, a French publi... ...French publishing company found (and published) a novella written by Napoléon, and now a few pages o... ...still rising in the ranks o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/18/Napolon-Bonaparte-Failed-Novelist/(Photo: James Patterson) Novelist James Patterson has a new book coming out called...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/22/New-Novel-Will-Self-Destruct-after-24-Hours/David Gordon published his first novel , The Serialist, and it did well enough for a firs... ...The Serialist, and it did well enough for a first novel in the United States. But in Japan, a translation... ...an, a translation of his book (titled Second-Rate Novelist ) won lite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/12/Surprise-Youre-a-Celebrity/Many authors make outlines of their novels to keep the story arc in place, make sure the imp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/15/Famous-Authors-Handwritten-Outlines-for-Great-Works-of-Literature/In 1968, novelist Len Deighton's personal assistant had a problem.... ...with the aid of the MTST: a curiously apropos novel about World War II, titled Bomber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/03/First-Novel-to-be-Written-on-a-Word-Processor/When a student couldn't finish his summer reading... ...s for help. He asked for someone to summarize the novel The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Never Had To for h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/15/Called-Out-on-a-Summer-Reading-List/On the surface, B. Traven's 1927 novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a suspenseful... ...son and madness. It stands as one of the greatest novels about the United States ever written by a foreign... ...ve all else, Traven's masterpiece is the rare pop novel that had the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/17/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre/You know it as Slaughterhouse-Five, but it goes by... .... The complete title of Kurt Vonnegut's acclaimed novel is Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade... ...ime Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale. This is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner... ...ng in 1945, then 1968, then 19...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/24/kurt-vonneguts-slaughterhouse-five/Stories can change your life - some inspire you to... ...some can lead to evil. Weird Worm has a list of 4 novels that inspired real life murders. Take, for exampl... ...mber. And maybe that’s for the best. In the novel , Frederick Clegg is an avid butterfly collector a... ...claimed to be inspired by t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/27/novels-that-inspire-real-life-murders/
