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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.
Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.
My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
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.
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better.
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.
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'
I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.
There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose.
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the pioneering achievement we now know it to be.
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.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
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.
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.
How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.
I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience.
I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written by Aleksandra Marinina, the former chief of police.
I think Detective Murdoch would say that what sets Canada apart is that we are known for being above board, that we don't fudge numbers and misrepresent ourselves.
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature.
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.
It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a huge fan of 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.'
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.
I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'
Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.
