“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book takes the reader… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“Not today! No, never again would she sit by the window, her back turned so she would not see him walk down the flagstone… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
