Blue Quote by Peter Straub

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

— Peter Straub

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has…

— Dorothy Parker

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

— Jane Haddam

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

— Michael Rosen

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

— Christopher Paolini

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young,…

— S. S. Van Dine

“Here, supposing that neither Harry Perkins nor the servants nor some outsider called ‘X’ had killed Stephen Anthony, was a murderer. He or she…

— Richard Lockridge

I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and…

— Richard Marshall

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the…

— Stephen King

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

— Mohsin Hamid

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story…

— Mike Carey

“A mystery man has just died in the novel. I've had these same thoughts when I see some of the homeless. "Then there is…

— Charles Dickens