Alive Quote by Anonymous

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six…

— Anonymous

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

— P. D. James

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last,…

— Dashiell Hammett

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's…

— Rex Stout

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

— Philip Guedalla

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of…

— Stephen Hopkins

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The…

— Raymond Chandler

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough…

— Anne Frank

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

— Carolyn Wells

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

— Alan Greenspan