ON TOUR WITH DEAD WRITERS: MANHATTAN GOTHIC

by | Aug 13, 2024 | The Writer's Life, On writing

ZJ Czupor‘s On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month.

a famous dead writer lived here

You may not know this author’s name, but you’ll certainly recognize his works.

He only wrote seven novels, and they were all adapted into films. He wrote tense, taut plots in multiple genres including mystery, Gothic horror, and science fiction weaving futurism or the supernatural into best-selling thrillers.

A talented writer, he also wrote ten plays including the longest running comic thriller on Broadway. And he was a songwriter.

Stephen King said, “Every novel he has ever written has been a marvel of plotting. He is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel; he makes what the rest of us do look like those five-dollar watches you can buy in the discount drug stores.”

Who was this award-winning, bestselling author?

Did you guess Herman Wouk last month? Katherine in Wisconsin won A Forgotten Kill by Isabella Maldonado!

Subscribe to our Newsletter to receive an extra clue at the beginning of each month as well as automatic entry to several more monthly Giveaways and first looks at weekly blogs!

Contest rules:
1. All US addresses are eligible to win.
2. Each month’s prize will be a book written by one of the Rogues and donated by that author.
3. All subscribers who email us with the correct answer before the 20th will be entered in a drawing to win.

Z.J. Czupor’s new murder mystery, When The Fog Rises, is published at zjames.substack.com. He’s also the author of the thriller Cut Right Through Me (also at Substack) and a book of poetry THE BIG WEIRD: Haikus in Times of Pandemic and Chaos. Z.J. is immediate past president of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. He is represented by Terrie Wolf, founder and owner of AKA Literary Management.

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