On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I listened to this as an audiobook and enjoyed it immensely, and learned some useful information. I do feel that King's advice about plotting (and avoiding it) is not applicable in any way to writing good mystery novels. At best that leads to forgetting threads of the narrative (like the lost murdered chaffeur in “The Big Sleep” and at worst that leads to the wholesale cheating that mars much of Agatha Christie's work.