Howdunit is the marquee crime and forensics reference series from Writer's Digest Books, the longest-running and most widely used working library of crime-writing reference in English-language fiction. Launched by Writer's Digest in the early 1990s and expanded across more than two decades, the series gives working novelists technically accurate, professionally vetted reference on police procedure, criminal investigation, forensic science, poisons, weapons, modus operandi, body trauma, crime-scene work, private investigation, and the working courtroom.
Working titles in the Howdunit catalogue include Police Procedure and Investigation by Lee Lofland, Forensics by D.P. Lyle, the Howdunit Book of Poisons by Serita Stevens and Anne Klarner, Murder One and Modus Operandi by Mauro Corvasce and Joseph Paglino, Cause of Death by Keith D. Wilson MD, Body Trauma by David W. Page MD, Howdunit: How Crimes Are Committed and Solved by John Boertlein, Private Eyes by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet, Just the Facts Ma'am by Greg Fallis, Armed and Dangerous by Michael Newton, Scene of the Crime by Anne Wingate, and Deadly Doses by Serita Deborah Stevens. The series remains the working first-stop reference for mystery, thriller, and crime fiction writers across the English-language market.
