Books Quote by Christopher Bollen

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or…

— Christopher Bollen

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

— Elsa Barker

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

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

— Andrew Shaffer

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

— Ben H. Winters

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant,…

— Cyril Connolly

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that…

— Raymond Chandler

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

— Diane Mott Davidson

I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.

— Laura van den Berg

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

— Kathy Reichs

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino