Quotes About Suspense

She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more

Suddenly Nancy spotted the mysterious Arab

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Put it in terms of the not-too-serious, if you like. Who got into that locked room? And how was it done? And why should the cup have been moved again? We're up against the essential detective problems of who, how, and why. Simply because there was no murder or near-murder, does that make the mystery one bit less baffling?

I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.

Catelyn had never been so glad to see the twin tower badge of House Frey.

going?" he asked, stepping toward her. For reply she only laughed, the most unpleasant laugh he had ever heard from her, and, stepping through, closed the door. Before he could reach it she had bolted it. He went immediately into the hall, but all the other doors to their suite were also locked.

Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel. Hmm. He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.

Roarke called here about a half an hour before you showed up." "He did?" "Real casual like. Asked about the baby, like that. I may not have seen it if I hadn't been looking, because he's just that good. But you're not the only one bleeding tonight.

As Eve strode down the bright white corridor of the dead, Peabody hustled beside her. Man, this place is always a little spooky, but this is beyond. You know how you half expect one of these bags to sit up and grab at you? No. Wait out here. If one of them makes a run for it, give me a call. I don't think that's particularly funny. And watching the still black bags warily, Peabody took her post at the door.

We have a Homicide, and a Code Five in number Eighteen-oh-three.

Murder, at least, Eve understood.

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He'd spent nearly two hours with her before he'd killed her, and nearly an hour more after she'd been dead. Yet he hadn't left a trace. Clever boy.

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You've got a knack for the dead and the innocent.

You make romance a dangerous business.

over the face in the picture. "Except for one thing." "Let me

Life was easier when all I had to do was think about murder.

Alone, Roarke took the gray fabric button from his pocket, the one he'd found on the floor of his limo. The one that had fallen from the jacket of that drab gray suit she'd worn the first time he'd seen her.

Dial M for Murder in my book, same director. And that