Being Quote by Erik Larson

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

— Agatha Christie

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

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

— Peter Shaffer

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

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