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“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

— Donna Tartt

“I doubt if there has ever been a society that has been without strong and young people eager to experiment with homicide, provided no…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The  story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.”

— Agatha Christie

“A murder trial is not a Sunday-afternoon tea party.”

— Vincent Bugliosi

“I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images…

— Peter Ackroyd

“In short, for the murders of those I court, I bless the hour that holds your fall.”

— Claudio Sanchez

“Some Murders Shouldn't Be Investigated.”

— Thomas Amo

“A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder…

— Agatha Christie

“More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The”

— Agatha Christie

“Except for these unfathomable mass murders. But these are infinitely more difficult to prevent. While law deters the rational, it has far less effect…

— Charles Krauthammer

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

— Anonymous