Agatha-christie Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?”

— Joe R. Lansdale

“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.”

— Sara Sheridan

Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader.…

— Sophie Hannah

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to…

— John Irving

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being in a…

— David Nicholls

“Once in while a man or a woman--no, they were not men and women; they were Jews--would find Liesel's face among the crowd. They…

— Markus Zusak

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on…

— Amor Towles

“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

“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

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur