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I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

— Shannon Miller

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”

— Elizabeth Savage

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's…

— Rex Stout

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

— Lennie James

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to…

— Bertrand Russell

“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a…

— Raymond Chandler

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

— Philip Guedalla

“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close…

— Francis M. Nevins

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of…

— Stephen Hopkins

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

— Anonymous

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

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.…

— Robert Cormier