Detective Story Quotes

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. P. D. James
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I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us. Alan Alda
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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form. Chester Himes
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There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. Dorothy L. Sayers
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It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found. Erik Larson
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Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them. Kerry Greenwood
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As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story. Nick Harkaway
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular. Otto Penzler
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. Peter Shaffer
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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural. William Peter Blatty
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