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“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

“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

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“That's just where I must part company with you, Inspector,” said the Vicar with a gentle smile. “I'm rather a voracious reader of mystery…

— John Bude

“if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from your life immediately”

— Jackson MacKenzie

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

— Miranda Otto

“Mysteries are always more exciting than truths”

— V.E. Schwab

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino

“Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and…

— A.A. Milne

“There is a lot of thrill explored and yet still lot unexplored!!”

— Mark Dysan