You can't get away from issues of life and death in a crime novel.
He had been reading American crime novels for several years.
He has been writing since before 1963, when his first crime novel was published.
Your task in writing a crime novel will be different.
As with any crime novel, those are big parts of its appeal.
In 1962, he had an intriguing idea for a crime novel.
He has written several other crime novels some of which may become films.
He has just completed his first crime novel and is currently working on a second.
He has also translated a large number of crime novels.
It's the why that lets us down in crime novels.