Quotes about Detective stories

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In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the — W.H. Auden
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and ha — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows fl — Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood
You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski — Laurie Stevens, The Dark Before Dawn
He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied wi — Barry N. Malzberg, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief — Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side... — David Videcette, The Theseus Paradox
There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some b — Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it. — Emily Eden, The Semi-Detached House