A Mystery Novelist

11/28/23 • 30 min

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Scouting body disposal sites, investigating obscure poisons, and computing royalty payments with Donna Andrews, the mystery novelist behind the Meg Langslow series. How do you make a living as a mystery novelist? And could Tylenol be a murder weapon?
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What It's Like To Be... - A Mystery Novelist

Transcript

Dan Heath00:00:00.161

Mystery novelists work in perhaps the only profession in which people are paid to come up with ingenious ways to kill people .

Dan Heath00:00:07.725

And while that may sound kind of fun , if your job is to kill two or three fictional characters a year , every year , it can become a challenge to keep things fresh and original . So when a mystery novelist m