“my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.” KnowsTwoBookStoriesMightInterestNovelWrittenMysteryCrimeReaderBuriedSlipsNow And ThenClueMystery NovelsCrime Books Book:The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book Source: The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book
“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.” IfsMayUseNovelForeverFailingMysteryReaderKingsHonorPromisePagesCriminalsStealingMysteriousPoisonPlotConspiracySwearModerationClueGangSwarmsMystery Novels Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.” KindFeelingsWantedNovelMaterialsLettersBoxesNewspapersClueEmailDetectivesReceiptsFax Author:Brian Pinkerton