I think it\\’s important
I think it’s important to recognise that ‘The Da Vinci Code’ opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history. Elizabeth Kostova
Detective Stories
make no mistake about
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. Dorothy L. Sayers
I know what you’re
I know what you’re thinking – that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don’t see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job. Dorothy L. Sayers
There certainly does seem
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
Detective stories keep alive
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun … But underneath they feed a hunger for justice … you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living. Dorothy … Read more
Listen, darling, tomorrow I’ll
Listen, darling, tomorrow I’ll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don’t worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. Dashiell Hammett
What I try to
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can’t attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn’t so interesting to me as … Read more
The detective story itself
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes … Read more
You find when you’re
You find when you’re writing a detective story that you’re actually not trying to solve anything. You’re trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle. Christopher Bollen
I also wonder why
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980]. Christopher Bollen