Detective Genre Quotes

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

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.

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.

I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with 'Seinfeld' all the time. He did it with 'Colombo', too, set the scene.

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.

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

To understand the current state of mind of both Sara Paretsky and her private detective alter ego, one must first roll back the clock to 1982, when Victoria Iphegenia Warshawski took her first investigative bow in 'Indemnity Only.'

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

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.