Category Archives: quotations

Detecting Crime in a Police State: Fact and Fiction, Quotes

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Reading William Ryan’s The Holy Thief and getting to know Captain Alexei Dmitriyevich Korolev of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Division set me to thinking about the role of a police detective in a totalitarian state, often called a “police state.” … Continue reading →

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Vienna Mysteries, Not Cozy: Frank Tallis Quotes

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Pastries and Perversion: To whet your appetite for my upcoming review of one of Frank Tallis’s great mysteries, here are some quotations from his work.  He has in less than a decade written six striking psychological thrillers, set in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna. I … Continue reading →

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Quotations: And other people say . . .

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

Dorothy L. Sayers Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject. Quoted  by P.D. James in TalkingaboutDetectiveFiction (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Toronto, 2009, … Continue reading →

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Quotations: And other people say. . .

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

 . . .on other historical mystery/thrillers . . . these came to mind after reviewing William Ryan’s “The Holy Thief” . . . Hans Fallada wrote in his 1946 Foreword to his great postwar novel of the Nazi years in Germany, … Continue reading →

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Quotations: And other people say . . .

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

 Erik Routley: In a perfect world there will be no need for detective stories: but then there will be nothing to detect. Their disappearance at this moment, however, will not bring the world any nearer to perfection. The high-minded would … Continue reading →

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