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Twenty rules for writing detective stories literature
Link #148490 submitted by johnny2000 on Nov 16, 2009 07:57am.   (+140XP)
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/vandine.htm
(Originally published in the American Magazine (1928-sep),  
and included in the Philo Vance investigates omnibus (1936).  
by S.S. Van Dine  
(pseud. for Willard Huntington Wright)  
 
THE DETECTIVE story is a kind of intellectual game. It is more — it is a sporting event. And for the writing of detective stories there are very definite laws — unwritten, perhaps, but none the less binding; and every respectable and self-respecting concocter of literary mysteries lives up to them. Herewith, then, is a sort Credo, based partly on the practice of all the great writers of detective stories, and partly on the promptings of the honest author's inner conscience. To wit:


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