You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Even an Astral Adventure needs a little sensuality. "Perhaps you can show me how tastefully decorated your bedroom is." Lee probably felt… — Scot Fin Copy Share Image
“People’s lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
“A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.” — Steven J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Anxious to defend his adopted city—especially his side of town, the less fashionable west end—Eli considered giving Veronica a condensed lecture on… — Max Everhart Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination." D'Molay the… — M.Scott Verne Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Lottie did everything the old fashioned way, including the bookkeeping, which was fine with me since I knew nothing about accounting software… — Kate Collins Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?” — Tom Haikin Copy Share Image
“The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.” — Mickey Wyte Copy Share Image
“All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the sreet. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls… — Diane Moore Copy Share Image
“But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition… — Marleen S. Barr Copy Share Image
“Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum… — Mandy Broughton Copy Share Image
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
