Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came…

“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the table and…

— Jo Nesbø

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and…

— Hugo Woolley

“I’m trying to figure the rules. This isn’t yin and yang, it’s more like yin and yank. The past few days I’ve been going,…

— Richard Castle

Britain can claim to lead the world in murder because it was a country that industrialized early. Other countries, going through the same process…

— Lucy Worsley

“Al Hickey: It's not about anything. Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand”

— Phillip Rock

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

— S. S. Van Dine

“She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband.”

— Helen Smith

“I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry.”

— Warren Ellis

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”

— Elizabeth Savage

“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every…

— Raymond Chandler

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

— Giles Foden

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all…

— Patti Smith