Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.”

— Robert K. Ressler

“More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Elliot Leyton

“While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.”

— Kathryn McMaster

“Ten years ago, it was speculated that there were fifty serial killers working in the United States at any given time.”

— Anne Frasier

“That was still my meat—the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why…

— Robert Bloch

“Honestly, I suspect that in this day and age most murders could be solved by the correct Google search. It could be a web…

— Max Wirestone

“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

“This is America’s most famous child abduction case, perpetrated by America’s most infamous serial killer, investigated by America’s most clueless homicide detectives.”

— Willis R. Morgan

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

“So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He…

— Christina Engela

“Maybe if you discover the murderer you’ll be a hero. At the minute I’m not entirely certain you’re anything more than a one-inch newspaper…

— Lauren James