Every gen­er­a­tion, it seems, has its pre­ferred best­selling genre fic­tion. We’ve had fan­ta­sy and, at least in very recent his­to­ry, vam­pire romance keep­ing us read­ing. The fifties and six­ties had their west­erns and sci-fi. And in the for­ties, it won’t sur­prise you to hear, detec­tive fic­tion was all the rage. So much so that—like many … Con­tin­ue read­ing “20 Rules For Writ­ing Detec­tive Sto­ries” By S.S. Van Dine, One of T.S. Eliot’s Favorite Genre Authors (1928)