Write Your Own: Mystery (3 page)

  
The Rat-a-tat Mystery,
Enid Blyton

  
Sam, The Girl Detective: The Case of the Missing Mummy,
Tony Bradman

  
Bug Muldoon Stories
, Paul Shipton

  
Diamond Brothers Stories
, Anthony Horowitz

  
Holes
, Louis Sachar

  
Harry Potter Series
, J K Rowling

  
The Castafiore Emerald
, Herge

  
Mystery Stories
, edited by Helen Cresswell

Writers are always on the lookout for ideas. Most writers keep a writing journal. This is a place for jotting down ideas before they get forgotten.

Look out for:

  unusual characters who might make great villains or suspects;

  strange places where weird things might happen;

  curious things that people say or do;

  news stories about local crimes or happenings that you could use as a basis for your mystery ‘problem'.

 

Writing Tip!

Get a cardboard box and use it to store possible ‘clues'. These could be any odd or unusual items you find. When you come to write you may not use all the items in your box, but they might give you some ideas.

You might save:

 a black feather;

 a scrap of a letter;