Quotes About Suspense

men like your Hercule Poirot don't have to look for crime—it comes to them.

Turn up the lights,' said Mr Rycroft. Major Burnaby rose and did so. The sudden glare revealed a company of pale uneasy faces.

It is a question of sudden and mysterious death. If I am to believe that it is a martyred angel who has been killed it does not add to the easiness of my task." "I certainly shouldn't call her an angel," said Miss Johnson and the acid tone was even more in evidence.

But what you don't seem to realise is that Armstrong is mad! And a madman has all the advantages on his side. He's twice as cunning as anyone sane can be.

followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.

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Agatha Christie

Do you know, M. Poirot, I rather hope that this case isn't going to be one of your successes. I'd quite like the murderer of Louise Leidner to get away with it. In fact, I wouldn't much have objected to putting her out of the way myself.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

No Woolworth handkerchiefs," reported Race, rapidly replacing the contents of a drawer.

Agatha Christie

And the victim, mademoiselle, is very often the clue to the mystery." Miss Reilly said: "That's rather clever of you, M. Poirot. It's certainly true that if ever a woman deserved to be murdered Mrs. Leidner was that woman!

Her works are not about the blood, but the marrow. They can be charming and harrowing at the same time.

Agatha Christie

There was a severed head, and two soft white forearms, and two long legs from the knees down, all laid out on the tile floor, with the hideous cuts of the saw clearly visible. The faucet was running, and the water had filled the bathtub and overflowed onto the floor. The long, luxuriant black hair on the bloated head twined and floated in the water like an undulant knot of snakes.

twenty years after McCauley's effort, I concluded that it was time to prove, once and for all, that the horror and suspense genre is a serious literary one. I had other reasons

pajamas. He stumbled a little, the two men jerked him upright and his glasses went askew. They stopped at the back of the Stolypin car, and one of the men let him go in order to open the door. Instinctively, he adjusted his glasses. Turned his head. For a bare instant, he stared at Khristo. His face appeared to have somehow shrunk, and his eyes looked enormous. Then the two

A wide streak of blood trailed from the entrance of the tomb to Hideki's father, and Hideki's heart lurched.

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

answered in a low, breathless voice.

I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.

ABC's Lost' consumes me. Everything about it is phenomenal.

The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!

Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.