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“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

“To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch." [From a…

— Rupert Hart-Davis

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

— John Buchan

“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

“I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He…

— Agatha Christie

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

— Agatha Christie

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

— Marshall Thornton

“...for me, being a detective isn’t just about solving a case. It’s about bringing a resolution to all the loose ends, and to do…

— Zechariah Barrett

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a writer since…

— Ricardo Fleshman