Alan Alda
Alan Alda

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.

Chester Himes
Chester Himes

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood

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.

Lee Grant
Lee Grant

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway

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.

Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler

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
Otto Penzler

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

P. D. James
P. D. James

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.