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Does anyone know the approximate number of words required for a detective novel?
Does anyone know the approximate number of words for a detective novel? I have tried to find out but no answer has been the reply. Not much help
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I don't suppose detective novels are much different.
I would actually say 80,000 - 100,000.
120,000 would make an editor blanche. Only Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Historical are able to stretch that far.
And as a Sci-Fi writer I can say that I have been advised to keep to the 100,000 limit. :)
Think I'll stick with the flash fiction and short stories for next year :)
'This wasn't murder,' Inspector Penny Black said, 'it was suicide!'
Who says you need 100k words?