Bears Quote by Elsa Barker

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving…

— Christopher Bollen

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

— Diane Mott Davidson

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life,…

— Alan Dershowitz

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

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

— John Green

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

— Bill James

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

When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

— Charles Fort

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

— Kathy Reichs

“The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A mystery is solved with a story.

— Anonymous

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

— Rachel Carson