Fairytail

If I were to write a mystery I would probably go about it in a similar way. As Shelley did, i would give the reader a glimpse as to what happens at some further down point in the book, however I would most likely try to make it a more intense scene, to help me draw the reader in. I would introduce the main character, the situation that was being dealt with in this particular scene, and then I would go back and write all the scenes that lead up to that scene. Of course after I had gotten back to the scene in the beginning of the book i would then write the conclusion to the story, and then THE END.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, she begins the story by introducing an explorer named Robert Walton and a stranger. Walton feels lonely on the voyage because he is smarter then everyone else and he has trouble connecting with is shipmates because of this. In letter four Walton describes seeing a gigantic creature in the middle of the frozen ice and then he later rescues a man whom was on his death bed. the man he rescued is the stranger. The stranger is smart and Walton seems to feel a connection with him almost instantly. As days pass the bond between Walton and the stranger grows, until eventually the stranger decides he wants to share the story of his life with Walton. Walton decides to write the story down because he wants to be able to read it in the future. The strangers story becomes the story of Frankenstein.