Web yields deadly tricks for crime writers
Technology cuts both ways for authors, particularly when it comes to plot twists in a Web-connected world.
"With the Internet, computers in general, mobile phones, CCTV and DNA to consider, the crime writer has to find new ways for the criminal to avoid leaving too many traces, or there would be no story," said Robinson.
And sometimes old-fashioned research - the sort found in books and at the library - still works best.
Child says he likes using picture books, particularly to help get the look and feel of guns.
Others share that view. Among recent posts on the www.crimeonline.net portal is one from an aspiring author who has tried unsuccessfully to find the right information via the Web about how a detective agency worked in the early 1900s.
The reply is to consider a trusted resource - books.
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