#detective stories

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! ↗

— Marie Windsor

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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗

— Rex Stout

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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

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Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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