Giles Foden Quotes

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of 'The Jinx.' That's such a satisfying show because it's all... I don't want to give it away to anybody, but it's really amazing.

Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.

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.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

I love the whole mystery-detective genre - I love all of that.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.

When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.

Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.