Assuming Quote by Peter Straub

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner,…

— Peter Straub

I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close…

— George Pelecanos

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Mistakes in a work of fiction by a writer are new discoveries by the reader, that create a new ending for the story.”

— kambiz mostofizadeh

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put…

— Alafair Burke

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

— Nicholson Baker

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

— Ian Mcewan

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a…

— Stefan Petrucha

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

— Louis Auchincloss