Old letters Quote by Tim Dorsey

“The storyteller gave me a sideways look. “Miss Lea, it doesn’t do to get attached to these secondary characters. It’s not their story. They…

— Diane Setterfield

“She finished updating the ledgers and was about to head out to inspect the turndown of the guests’ rooms when a man rapped on…

— Fiona Davis

“Robin caught the door before it closed on the dingy stairwell. An old-fashioned metal staircase spiraled up around an equally antiquated birdcage lift. Concentrating…

— Robert Galbraith

“there.” Annie finished cleaning up in the kitchen, went to the makeshift office, and dropped into the swivel chair behind the desk. The office,…

— Rayven T. Hill

“The cook, the gardener, and the guard stayed behind the main house in a cold-water shack with a rusted roof, like a piece of…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“The operating table was empty. 'Where's he gone?' demanded Jane. 'he didn't leave a note,' said Rye”

— Adam Baker

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There came a brisk knock on the door that internally connected the two rooms. Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?” “Passwords are for sissies,”…

— Brandon Mull

“To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was”

— Steven Kotler

“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

“So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye to his…

— E.L. Doctorow