Quote by Colin Dexter

“Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.”

— David Simon

“I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images…

— Peter Ackroyd

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

“He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.”

— Georgette Heyer

“Mike wished Mr. Burden had chosen another time to be murdered. He was beginning to see that the hour of dressing for dinner might…

— Eilís Dillon

“A murderer is a killer without a uniform.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being…

— John Grisham

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims…

— Agatha Christie

“Gilbert... sat at the foot of the bed and wore the dazed, beleaguered look of a suspect hauled in for questioning on a day…

— Joe Keenan

“Clarrie tried to get my attention. I looked away deliberately.He put his arm around my shoulders.I shook it off. He tried to grab my…

— nixon j.d

“...while the others--those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther--felt viable now with disgust for…

— Colum McCann

“Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail -…

— Elliot Leyton