Quotes About Suspense

The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.

I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well. ~ Bertram Bertie Wooster

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand

There was a moment's suspense while Conscience and Sheer Wickedness fought the matter out inside him, and then Conscience, which had started on the encounter without enthusiasm, being obviously flabby and out of condition, threw up the sponge.

Julie," I whispered, "I just found out something. Jack's all wrong. His mother's not involved." "Big deal," Julie said. "I already knew that. Jack's being utterly ridiculous." She shoved a pile of pictures toward me. "And I don't appreciate your running off and leaving me to do the dirty work." Columbo didn't have a sister—I'm sure of that.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if...What if...' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Patricia Highsmith

Polisiye romanlar iyidir. Her çeÅŸit insan?n cinayet iÅŸleyebileceÄŸini kan?tlarlar.

Langdon turned to Sophie. Who is that? What... happened? Teabing hobbled over. You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

This guy eluded the French police... in loafers? -Chief Anderson

A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.

was Hale. He glanced toward Node 3, wondering if the cryptographer were watching. "Fuck it," he grumbled. Below his feet the outline of a recessed trapdoor

space between the two faces. Now Langdon stood outside

said, leaving Langdon and moving several yards to a portable table covered with investigation

Langdon felt a chill. This killer is here for both of us.

Greenburger

when the pod door hissed open.

Tras marcarlos, los científicos fueron asesinados y sus cuerpos arrojados en distintos lugares públicos de Roma a modo de advertencia a otros científicos para que no se unieran a los illuminati. —Así es.

se encontraba su hombre junto a una computadora portátil abierta, tecleando algo con las manos enfundadas en unos guantes de látex.

Sienna Brooks exploded

there's a body

making. Langdon suspected, however, that the actual reason

Zobrist yesterday afternoon." "We most certainly did—" Sienna placed a restraining hand on Langdon's arm. "Robert Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â She gave a grim sigh. "Six