Crime Quote by Agatha Christie

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

“I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent…

— Anthony Horowitz

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“That was still my meat—the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why…

— Robert Bloch

“Be like a detective. See what’s going on around you.”

— Art Hochberg

“My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.”

— Lawrence Block

“I stared at the list, as though willing the murderer's name to appear in red letters before my eyes. I felt I was so…

— Ashley Weaver

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Andrew Hixson

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“Being a detective can be dangerous! Thanks for the assist.”

— Franklin W. Dixon