Crime Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“...if you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does…

— from the Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

“I don't believe for one moment that I killed him [...] But if I didn't, somebody else did. I must appoint myself Investigator. I…

— Pamela Branch

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

“Someone was certainly guilty of something, however, and it behooved us to take all possible precautions.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Criminals, because they’re plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they’re pure, never will.”

— Tom Robbins

“What's the point in answering, Warden? It's obvious that you've already tried and convicted me. If I tell you I am involved, you will…

— Jim Butcher

“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

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to explain. (Box…

— Kobo Abe

“You should never have suspicion about anyone in this world; not even if it is true. It is a terrible offence to have suspicion…

— Dada Bhagwan

“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

“The duty of an investigator was to scratch away at innocence until guilt was uncovered. If no guilt was uncovered then they hadn’t scratched…

— Tom Rob Smith