I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.
I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.
In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.
I think like a detective.