This is the Mystery Novel Template I wish I had when I first started out. Many of the videos I watched on YouTube used the Hero's Journey and some other adventure plotlines to explain plotting, but I never saw anything referring specifically to mystery stories.
I don't have to tell you how hard it was trying to fit a whodoneit into a hero's journey novel template! This breaks down the mystery into four easy parts. In my humble opinion, using a four-part story structure prevents the book from sagging in the middle section that is twice as long as part one and part three in a three-act structure.
Below is the template that you can download from Google Drive. I hope this helps in visualizing the mystery broken down into four parts. I know this helped me a lot when I wrote my own mysteries, all of which can be found on my author page on Amazon.com.
