Crime Quote by Sara Sheridan

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

— Peter James

“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what…

— Oscar Wilde

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when…

— Denise Mina

“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you…

— Sara Sheridan

This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy. But I've…

— Michael Connelly

“I don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.”

— Anonymous

“It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave…

— 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

“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim