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Carr, John Dickson 1906 - 1977
Master of ‘The Locked Room’ Mystery
“Now, here is your box with one door, one window, and solid walls. In discussing ways of escaping when both door and window are sealed, I shall not mention the low (and nowadays very rare) trick of having a secret passage to a locked room. This so puts a story beyond the pale that a self-respecting author scarcely needs even to mention that there is no such thing.” The Hollow Man
“We have, for instance, the gun-mechanism concealed in the telephone receiver, which fires a bullet into the victim’s head as he lifts the receiver. We have the pistol with a string to the trigger, which is pulled by the expansion of water as it freezes. We have the clock that fires a bullet when you wind it; and (clocks being popular) we have the ingenious grandfather clock which sets ringing a hideously clanging bell on its top, so that when you reach up to shut off the din your own touch releases a blade that slashes open your stomach.” The Hollow Man
“The door is locked, the window too small to admit a murderer; yet the victim has apparently been stabbed from inside the room and the weapon is missing. Well, the icicle has been fired as a bullet from the outside – we will not discuss whether this is practical, any more than we have discussed the mysterious gases previously mentioned – and it melts without a trace. … To continue with regard to the icicle: its actual use has been attributed to the Medici, and in one of the admirable Fleming Stone stories an epigram of Martial is quoted to show that it had its deadly origin in Rome in the first century AD. Variants of the same theme, a soluble missile, have been rock-salt bullets and even bullets made of frozen blood.” The Hollow Man
“An illusion, simple but effective. The murderer, after committing his crime, has locked the door from the outside and kept the key. It is assumed, however, that the key is still in the lock on the inside. The murderer, who is first to raise a scare and find the body, smashes the upper glass panel of the door, puts his hand through with the key concealed in it, and finds the key in the lock inside, by which he opens to door.” The Hollow Man
Chandler, Raymond 1888 - 1959
“Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”
“A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.” of Los Angeles
“I let go of her wrist, closed the door with my elbow and slid past her. It was like the first time. ‘You ought to carry insurance on those,’ I said.” Little Sister
“Crime isn’t a disease, it’s a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour.” The Long Goodbye
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”
“If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.”
“When in doubt have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
“If you believe in an ideal, you don’t own it, it owns you.”
“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.” Farewell, My Lovely
Chesterton, G.K. 1874 - 1936
"A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive."
"The ultimate effect of the great science of Fingerprints is this: that whereas a gentleman was expected to put on gloves to dance with a lady, he may now be expected to put on gloves in order to strangle her." - Avowals and Denials, 1935
"Only poor men get hanged."
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
ON FATHER BROWN by G.K. CHESTERTON
“Father Brown never meets a criminal he could not himself be....”
“Some people are drawn to crime; in my case, crime seems to be drawn to me.” Father Brown
“I try to get inside a man . . . thinking his thoughts, wrestling with his passions, till I have bent myself into the posture of his hunched and peering hatred. Till I am really a murderer. And when I am quite sure that I feel like the murderer, of course I know who he is.” Father Brown
Christie, Dame Agatha 1890 - 1976
The Mastermind of the Puzzle Mystery – my muse
“People think that writing must be easy for me. It’s not. It’s murder.” Agatha
“Agatha Christie is a wonderful fabricator of mysteries, she’s like a literary conjurer. Her characters may be somewhat pasteboard. She lays them down on the table and shuffles them with those cunning fingers and you watch and think, ‘right, this time, I must have it: It’s this one,’ and she turns it up and you’re wrong again. – P.D. James
Agatha Christie had the longest successful run of any mystery writer, publishing continuously for 56 of her 86 years. Her play, The Mousetrap, opened in London in 1952 and has been running ever since, breaking all records for the longest continuous theatrical run. At the time of her death, she had sold more than two billion copies of her books around the world and was the largest-selling detective writer, male or female, anywhere. In her lifetime, only the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare had sold more copies. And her books continue to sell in the millions 20 years after her death. Even though Christie earned only £25 for her first novel, an American publisher paid $9.6 million after her death for the reprint rights to 33 titles. MYSTERY! A CELEBRATION
“What [Agatha Christie] was going for with Miss Marple – the little old doddery lady – was the mind, the nimble mind in a woman. A woman’s mind is very different from a man’s. We’re very fast at organization and also usually incredibly observant … Women are very predatory creatures, and they size up things very quickly, whereas a male doesn’t. A male detective has to learn that. Whereas a woman’s had it since she was a tiny little tot.” Lynda La Plante, At Random
“Agatha Christie, some say, made more money from murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia.” Robert A. McLean, Boston Globe
“Where did this ‘upper middle-class British housewife’ (as Christie liked to call herself) come up with her hundreds of sinister plots? She claimed that she thought of them most often while eating apples and soaking in her old-fashioned footed bathtub. (Years later, she mourned the replacement of her old tub, claiming she was no longer able to derive quite as much inspiration from the newer, more modern fixture.)” Vincent Price
“Christie made her killers bump off their victims in an interesting variety of methods; a kitchen skewer thrust into the base of the skull; a poison dart from a blowgun; even a deadly ukulele string around the neck. One of my favorite murder methods that she devised was a chess set: The white bishop was electrically wired to a power line in the apartment below. The victim went to make his move, and zap! Christie … confessed that she knew nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why she killed off her characters with other instruments – or with poisons…
One of Christie’s most ingenious killings takes place when a character is listening to the radio while examining a glass bulb which is, unbeknownst to the unfortunate victim, filled with an exotic and lethal poison gas. The tenor on the radio hits a particularly high note – the glass shatters … During World War I, the fledgling novelist had volunteered for service in a hospital dispensary and there first became interested in poisons. During the second world war, Christie again volunteered for hospital dispensary work.” Vincent Price
“Agatha Christie introduced an adapter of detective stories into a book just once. He was illegitimate and overweight or, not to put too fine a point on it, a fat bastard. His father and his mother were murderers and so was he. You draw in your breath a bit smartish. When Miss Christie brings one up from the floor you certainly know, as your teeth fall tinkling around you, that it has to be connected.
Call me over-sensitive, but I don’t think she was fond of adapters. She wasn’t all that keen on actors either. Three turn up in her books as murderers and the rest are only just this side of certifiable. I would deduce that she had not found the dramatizations of her books a wholly happy experience and, indeed, some of the films were very peculiar indeed.” Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
“All the stories exude the familiar well-loved Christie atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s – sumptuously gowned women mingling with retired colonels and dancing the night away with clean-cut young men who are not always what they seem – despite their frequent appearances in the smartest nightclubs.” Vincent Price
“One never thinks of Christie in terms of sex. There are no sex scenes in her books. People don’t seem to get physically close at all; steamy romance is not what she’s famous for. In fact, she’s rather famous for not having those things. She’s considered to be prim and Victorian and stereotyped. But when you look at why people do things in her novels, the interesting thing is how often sexual passion is the essential motivator. Gillian Gill, author of Agatha Christie, The Woman and Her Mysteries
“The widespread popularity of Agatha Christies’ work is nothing short of phenomenal itself . . . Her only close competitors are Shakespeare, the Bible, and Sherlock Holmes . . . One West African fan wrote to Christie to say that he was arriving in England shortly and asking if she would be his mother. A native cult in New Guinea used the front cover of one paperback edition of Evil Under the Sun as an object of worship. Even Anna Freud reported to one of her famous father’s biographers that the pioneer of psychoanalysis liked to read murder mysteries and his particular favorites were Agatha Christie’s.” Vincent Price
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1859 - 1930
“I have had such an overdose of [Sherlock Holmes] that I feel toward him like pate de fois gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling.”
“It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime, it is the worst of all.” The Speckled Band
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.”
“It was unquestionably the mark of his thumb.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.”
“A printing press – a counterfeiter’s outfit.”
“Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.”
“There is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly [a type of cigar made from tobacco grown in Trichinopoly, India] and the white fluff of a bird’s eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato.”
“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes. – Silver Blaze
“Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.”
“It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.”
“ ‘Excellent,’ I cried. ‘Elementary,’ he said.”
“Ex-professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity…is the Neopolen of crime, Watson.”
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
“It is the unofficial force – the Baker Street irregulars.”
“You know my methods. Apply them.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
“Poor taste leads to crime.” French proverb quoted by Conan Doyle in The Sign of Four
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Deductive Reasoning?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, often told self-deprecating stories about himself.
Having stepped into a taxi in Paris one evening, he was surprised to hear the driver address him: "Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?" He asked the driver whether they had ever met. "No sir," the man replied. "I have never seen you before." Had he been recognized from a photograph? No. The puzzled Doyle then asked what had led him to the conclusion that he was in fact Sir Conan Doyle.
"This morning's paper had a story about you being on vacation in Marseilles," the driver explained. "This is the taxi-stand where people who return from Marseilles always come. Your skin colour tells me you have been on vacation. The ink-spot on your right index finger suggests to me that you are a writer. Your clothing is very English, not French. Adding up all those pieces of information, I deduce that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."
"This is truly amazing!" Doyle enthused. "You are the real-life counterpart of my fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes!"
"There is one other thing," the driver admitted. "What is that?" Doyle asked. "Your name," the driver replied, "is on the front of your suitcase."
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ON SHERLOCK HOLMES by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
“In late Victorian England people believed in order, and the world was seen as possessing a mechanistic simplicity. How ripe, then, this scientifically inquisitive age was for the emergence of the ‘consulting detective,’ Sherlock Holmes. The proud Victorian principle of ‘applied science’ lent itself perfectly to Holmes’ ‘scientific method’ of investigation, which culminated in his meticulous ‘reason by deduction.’” Vincent Price
“Our aspiration to put our reason in control of our instincts and emotions is so deep and intense that we constantly pretend we are doing so. We almost never are, but Sherlock Holmes always is.” Rex Stout
“Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.” - Rex Stout
“Holmes, of course, will find the solutions because he believes, with architect Mies van der Rohe, that God is in the details. He will understand that RACHE scrawled in blood is a clue not that the killer’s name is Rachel but that the word means ‘revenge’ in German. He will be drawn to a case by noticing how deep the parsley has sunk into the butter. Watson will marvel at his deductions until Holmes shows why they are elementary.” Stefan Kanfer – Time
“Conan Doyle’s sons reminded Scotland Yard – when, in 1953, its chief claimed that Sherlock Holmes’ methods were ‘dirty and nasty’ – that their father was responsible for the use of plaster of Paris for preserving footprints, for establishing the minute investigation of a man’s clothing to discover his occupation or where he had been, and for the method of determining the precise differentiation among tobacco ashes.” Vincent Price
“Although Doyle was knighted in 1902, ostensibly for having volunteered as chief surgeon in a South African hospital during the Boer War and for having written pamphlets supporting the British position, many feel the real reason was because he had promised the King he would bring Holmes back. When The Strand magazine published The Final Problem, in which Holmes and Moriarty plunge to their “deaths” from the Reichenbach Falls, tens of thousands of readers wrote to the magazine, begging Doyle to bring Holmes back. Some 20,000 readers canceled their subscriptions. Men wore black bands around their hats, and the country was in the deepest mourning it experienced since Queen Victoria died. Surely Holmes’ resurrection was well worth a knighthood.”
Dexter, Colin 1930 -
“I don’t do any police research. All I know about it is what I get from reading other people’s novels. I make it up as I go along. I try not to get things wholly wrong, but I’m not one of those who knows anything about police procedures. The police smile at me vaguely and tell me I haven’t the faintest idea about it. But I do a lot of charity work for them, so they’re very gentle and kind to me.” Colin Dexter
“Marriage in fiction is an albatross. Raymond Chandler ruined Philip Marlowe when he married. Morse has to be independent, a bottle of Scotch his companion.” Colin Dexter, Washington Post
“I’ve killed 71 people in Oxford, so if I went in to see the police, they’d probably arrest me for making Oxford the crime capital of the European Community.” Colin Dexter
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ON INSPECTOR MORSE by COLIN DEXTER
“I usually wake up and cut the grass. Sometime around mid-morning when I get the feeling it’s about time I wrote something, I write for two or three hours. I have no discipline whatsoever. That’s about as much as I can do.” Colin Dexter Houston Chronicle
“In Dexter’s latest Morse book, Death Is Now My Neighbor, the next to the last word reveals a mystery that has stymied readers, led bookmakers to place odds on its resolution, and forced the publisher to keep the galleys secret. The mystery? Morse’s first name.” MYSTERY! A CELEBRATION
Gardner, Erle Stanley 1889 – 1970
“It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.”
“The courtroom atmosphere was stale with that psychic stench which comes from packed humans whose emotions are roused to a high pitch of excitement.”
“Why beat about the bush?” Billings said. “She’s Gabby’s moll. She knows who pumped the lead into him. She didn’t tell the police but she knows. Suppose someone should think that she told me?”
"You're getting this case all mixed up, brother," Drake told him.
Perry Mason laughed grimly.
”That's the way I want it," he said.
"You," said Della Street, staring at him, "are a cross betwen a saint and a devil."
"All men are," said Perry Mason, unperturbed.
Hammett, Dashiell 1894 – 1961
Tickled Pinkerton
Dashiell Hammett's eight years working as a Pinkerton detective (between 1915 and 1922) taught him invaluable lessons about clever - and not so clever - sleuthing.
On one occasion, the man he had been hired to tail wandered into the country and managed to become quite lost; Hammett himself was obliged to direct him back to the city.
Once Hammett was engaged by the defense during the Fatty Arbuckle rape-and-murder trial. He also once foiled a heist (of $125,000 in gold) when he found the booty stuffed down the smokestack of a ship about to embark for Australia.
James, P.D. 1920 -
“We do not write sadistic thrillers or the novel of espionage. Women are interested in what I call ‘malice domestic,’ the effects of people having to work and live together. I think of it as more cerebral. Women have a great eye for detail, and if you are clue-making, you must have an eye for detail.”
“I had an interest in death from an early age. It fascinated me. When I heard ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall’, I thought, ‘Did he fall or was he pushed?’
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
“With Agatha Christie ingenuity of plot was paramount – no one looked for subtlety of characterization, motivation, good writing. It was rather like a literary card trick. Today we’ve moved closer to the mainstream novel, but nevertheless we need plot.”
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ON ADAM DALGLIESH by P.D. JAMES
“Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is a Scottish-born, balding, moustachioed, macho, but sensitive cop. He does a lot more for the Yard’s image than Inspector Lestrade” Marvin Kitman, Newsday
“So many of [James’] readers have clamoured for more intimate information about Dalgliesh’s personal life that she felt it necessary to respond: ‘A serious love and sex interest in a mystery can endanger its unity as a novel, not to speak of the quality of its detection.’ And although, in a paraphrase of Jane Austen, James admits that mystery lovers seem to feel that ‘an unmarried detective who is in receipt of a good income is in need of a wife,’ she assures us that she is steadfast in her plans to keep him single.” Vincent Price
“We’re not talking about Sam Spade here; we’re talking about Hamlet and Lear and maybe Lao-tzu, in a three piece suit with a moustache. As Dalgliesh, [actor] Roy Marsden is beyond reproach. He is a reproach to the rest of us who aren’t so sad and wise and slump-shouldered under the weight of all that we know about iniquity and unfairness. He is weary, but he twinkles. He perseveres, as if he were writing a poem whose depressing coda he already apprehends. It never occurs to him that he shouldn’t write this poem; he made that decision before we were born.” John Leonard, New York
Le Carre, John 1931 -
“A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.”
“Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.”
“Graham Greene once referred to a chip of ice that has to be in the writer's heart. And that is the strain: that you must abstain from relationships and yet at the same time engage in them. There you have, I think, the real metaphysical relationship between the writer and the spy.”
“I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.”
“If you describe a Secret Service and impose upon it the same ground rules of behavior as you would upon an English country house, you quickly get the reader with you. So these are bits of ammunition that are available to an English writer, and properly used, are pure gold, in my experience.”
“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.”
“Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.”
Mortimer, Sir John 1923 -
“I think humor is very important in the law. The prosecution is always very severe, and if you’re defending, it’s vital to counteract that with humor.” John Moritmer, WETA Magazine
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ON HORACE RUMPOLE by JOHN MORTIMER
“Rumple is the law in its context. It’s like seeing the animals in their natural habitat at the zoo.” Marvin Kitman Newsday
“Being a lawyer has almost nothing to do with knowing the law.” Horace Rumpole
“Once when author Mortimer failed to win the case of a client accused of attempted murder, the condemned snapped at him, “Your Mr. Rumpole could have got me out of this!” MYSTERY! A CELEBRATION
“I’m terribly proud that they quoted Rumpole twice during the O.J. Simpson trial. One of the defense lawyers told Judge Ito he thought they were getting ‘a case of premature adjudication,’ which is something Rumpole always says. Then one of the prosecution lawyers said, ‘As Rumpole would say, it all comes down to the blood.’” John Mortimer
Peters, Ellis 1913 – 1995
The Mistress of the Medieval Mystery
“I have one sacred rule about the thriller. It must have morality. If it strays from the side of the angels, provokes total despair, takes pleasure in evil, that is an unforgivable sin. I am not very good at villains.” Ellis Peters
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ON BROTHER CADFAEL by ELLIS PETERS
“More people today are learning about the medieval period from Ellis Peters than from any other source.” Telegraph Magazine
Edgar Allen Poe 1809 – 1849
The Father of the Mystery Story
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”
“Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!”
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
“To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.”
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893 - 1957
“Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.”
ON LORD PETER WIMSEY by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
“I’ve had so many letters asking how do you keep in the monocle … it makes a change from ‘How do you learn your lines,’ I must say … The answer to both questions is, with great difficulty.” Edward Petherbridge playing Lord Peter Wimsey
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Simenon, Georges 1903 - 1989
“I was born in the dark and in the rain, and I got away. The crimes I write about are the crimes I [might] have committed . . . don’t forget that the policeman was often born in the same street as the criminal . . . Deep down the policeman understands the criminal because he could so easily have become one.”
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Stout, Rex 1896 – 1975
“A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.”
“Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.”
“I still can't decide which is more fun-reading or writing.”
“If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.”
“One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.”
“To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.”
Symons, Julian 1912 - 1994
“If you want to show the violence that lives behind the bland faces that most of us present to the world, what better vehicle can you have than the crime novel.”
“The fact is that ninety per cent of crime stories, mystery stories, thrillers, are written by people with no feeling for language, place or character.”
“It seems to me that the recent American writers, often praised for ruthless realism, produce for the most part sensational or sentimental sex-grills designed to titillate, written in hard-shelled but soft-boiled sub-Hemingway prose.”
Westlake, Donald E. 1933 -
My personal favourite!
“A firebreak is a small fire set in front of a big fire, to stop the big fire by robbing it of fuel. I wanted to adapt that idea, by having people commit a small robbery, in the course of which they discover, but don't get, something much more valuable.”
“I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.”
“I don't know that any one book was of larger than normal significance in my career. My method has been more like water torture, one drop at a time.”
”I find characters who are at cross-purposes with society, or opposed to society in some way, interesting because they are by definition the underdogs.”
”I had an idea for a multiple robbery story that I thought would be ideal for Parker because it would irritate him so.”
”I have read, and believe, that anger is sadness projected outward. I thought, what if somebody turned that sadness into anger, not in a Polish-cavalry-against-the-Nazi-tanks heroic suicide way, but in a productive way? THE AX came from that.”
”I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.”
“I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.”
“If I'd known he'd be back in more than 20 books, I'd have given him a first name.”
“My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.”
“On the positive side, the mystery genre has gained astonishing respect. Of the 8 publishers in hardcover that regularly did mysteries in 1960, the editors at 7, assigned to mysteries, were also the cookbook editors.”
“Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.”
“Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station wagon, which they abandoned 2 blocks later because none of them could drive a stick shift. Where would I be without such people?”
This is a small selection of many, many worthy authors. Some, but by no means all, other favourites are:
For children:
Linda Bailey – Stevie Diamond Mysteries
Enid Blyton
Gertrude Chandler Warner – The Boxcar Children
For adults:
Janet Evanovich
Ian Fleming
Graham Greene
John Grisham
John D. MacDonald
Thomas Perry
John Sandford
Mickey Spillane
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