🔎 From Miss Marple to Modern Cozies: A Guide to Amateur Sleuth Mysteries

Suggest a book for the podcast or say hello! 🧶 What’s an amateur sleuth mystery? One of the most beloved subgenres in mystery fiction! They're stories of an ordinary person, not a professional detective, who solves a crime.  📚 If you love cozy mysteries, classic whodunits, or Golden Age detective fiction, this episode is your guide to the amateur sleuth. 🕵️ The amateur sleuth has a long, rich history that spans from Agatha Christie's Miss Marple to Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey to modern cozy mystery series.  ⚡️ I also tackle what I call the "special problems" of writing amateur sleuth mysteries, and I break down how the Polish mystery film In for a Murder solves each of the challenges. 🔗 For a twice-a-month update on newly released historical mystery books, sign up HERE. Podcasts Mentioned: S1E6 Her Royal Spyness Bonus: Murder on the S.S. Cleopatra by Sara Rosett S6E1 Agatha Christie S6E6 Dorothy L. Sayers S2 E5 - The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu S4E5 Crime TV Shows for Cozy Mystery Readers S2E4 Mystery in Translation S2 E1 - Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman S2 E3 A Peculiar Combination Books on Writing Fiction: Trope Thesaurus: Mystery and Thriller by Sara Rosett and Jennifer Hilt: https://books2read.com/mysteryandthriller/ How to Outline a Cozy Mystery by Sara Roset: https://books2read.com/howtocozy Support the show 📚 Buy Sara's books: SaraRosettBooks.com 🔎  Get more mystery in your life when you sign up for Sara's updates.