Bizarre Quote by S. S. Van Dine

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett,…

— Eleanor Catton

“including one entitled Criminal Investigative Failures. Having read the Chronicle article and seen the KXAN-TV broadcast, Rossmo”

— Beverly Lowry

“The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court…

— Ridley Pearson

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character…

— Ellen Glasgow

“In any discussion of serial killers, a few notorious names—those of the most prolific killers—always get mentioned. Ted Bundy admitted to killing thirty women,…

— Ann McElhinney

“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered; an…

— G.K. Chesterton

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

“He was really only a sort of detective, a species”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

With 'River Monsters', I am the investigator: here's the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow it down;…

— Jeremy Wade