"Though I don't really understand her I love my sister, her name's Miranda The boys from uptown they can't stand her T…"

"The only exception to his careful planning was plot; the best way to stop the reader guessing the end of a story, he …"

"The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type …"

"To the memory of Mr. Stan Phillips. (...) Just another four-flusher."

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"There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the lon…"

"Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the de…"

"When you read a story, you accept its implausibilities and extravagances, because they are no more fantastic than the…"

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountai…"