1.   Although Mickelbury has always wanted to write mysteries, she says the transition from journalism to fiction was not easy.

2.   Examiner contributor Marie Wagner Krenz writes mysteries.

3.   Hammett is acknowledged as the finest mystery writer ever, but that is because he chose to write mysteries.

4.   Her father, Chip Grafton, was a lawyer who drank a lot and wrote mysteries on the side.

5.   I asked Heller, who writes comic mysteries, to make a joke, to tell me Sims was wrong.

6.   In contrast to James and others who write individual mysteries, Ms. George writes books that overlap and are the equivalent of one continuing novel.

7.   She recalls reading Nancy Drew mysteries as a child and cites feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun, who writes mysteries under the name Amanda Cross, as a current model.

8.   That stability was hard to give up, but Hager ultimately decided she had to quit doing romances if she was ever going to write a mystery.

9.   The Denver lawyer, however, writes mysteries.

10.   The first Carr mystery was written in the voice of John Schuyler Moore, the New York Times reporter, and that artifice gave it a certain loftiness.