Courses Quote by Rex Stout

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick…

— Rex Stout

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

— Rex Stout

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

“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English detective fiction…

— T.S. Eliot

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

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

— Shane Black

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last,…

— Dashiell Hammett

When we saw 'The Knick' or 'True Detective,' they had very distinct scores that were doing very distinct things.

— Matt Duffer

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different…

— Henning Mankell