I couldn’t stop staring. “Sweetheart,” he said, “is my…

“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