Believe Quote by George Pelecanos

“It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative…

— Anthony Horowitz

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

Oooh I like to read murder mystery. I like to know the killer isn't me.

— Erasure

“In a whodunnit, when a detective hears that Sir Somebody Smith has been stabbed thirty-six times on a train or decapitated, they accept it…

— Anthony Horowitz

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner…

— Anonymous

“It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory I don't…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

— P. D. James

I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I…

— Mary McCarthy

If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is.…

— Cary Fukunaga

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's…

— Mary Stewart