Edwin M. Stanton Quotes

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Who the hell do you think did it, Martians?

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

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.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.