Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Personally I like the English style better. It is not quite so brittle, and the people as a rule, just wear clothes… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
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