Conclusion Quote by Miranda Otto

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

— Karla Crome

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

— Elif Batuman

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

'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

Anything is easy to the man who sees… The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

“Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience.”

— Marshall Thornton

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

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

— Agatha Christie

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant,…

— Cyril Connolly

“The heroes of urban fantasy come out of the hard-boiled mystery, while the villains, monsters, and antagonists have their own roots in classic horror…

— George R.R. Martin