A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a…

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been…

— Noam Chomsky

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last,…

— Dashiell Hammett

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

— Peter Shaffer

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's…

— Rex Stout

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

— Philip Guedalla

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of…

— Stephen Hopkins

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

— Carolyn Wells

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving…

— Christopher Bollen

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the…

— Rex Stout

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

— P. D. James

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

— Agatha Christie