Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.

...and then a murder mystery will occur.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

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.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand how the mystery ultimately will be solved.

I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

I like mysteries.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a true detective story.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.