As A Reporter, You Develop

The Character Can Never Be Static From Book To Book. People Might Think You Just Come Up With A New Plot And Stick This Guy In. Well, He Has To Be As New As The Plot Every Time.

I Wrote My First Real Murder Story As A Journalist For The Daytona Beach News Journal In 1980. It Was About A Body Found In The Woods. Later, The Murder Was Linked To A Serial Killer Who Was Later Caught And Executed For His Crimes.

I'm A Disciple Of Raymond Chandler, Who Said In His Essays That There's A Quality Of Redemption In Anything That Can Be Called Art.

...it Is How A Person Goes About Quenching His Desires Or Living With Them Unrequited That The Readers Get A Glimpse Of His True Character.

Well, Did He Do It?" She Always Asked The Irrelevant Question. It Didn't Matter In Terms Of The Strategy Of The Case Whether The Defendant "did It" Or Not. What Mattered Was The Evidence Against Him -- The Proof -- And If And How It Could Be Neutralized. My Job Was To Bury The Proof, To Color The Proof A Shade Of Gray. Gray Was The Color Of Reasonable Doubt.