Quotes About Mystery

Mary Westmacott, which was, in fact, Christie's nom de plume.

She's the only line of continuity running through the haphazardness of my life, even though there are times when I'm not even sure if I really know her.

But I'm not going to play fucking University Challenge with you now or at any time. I've got a dead woman and somebody strangled her in her own front room and that's all that matters to me right at this moment.

He was someone who was only fully alive when he was working on a case. He needed there to have been a murder or some other violent crime. It was his entire raison d'être – another posh phrase which I am sure he would have hated.

Akira Anno is Mark Belladonna, isn't she! Mark doesn't exist.' He rounded on Akira. 'You wrote those stupid books.

you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything makes sense. Just about every whodunnit provides that pleasure.

and after arriving in England, he had set himself up as a private detective, helping the police on numerous occasions. He

You're joking. Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.

warships. It wasn't exactly what

for that Ghast ship

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.

I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?

I am psychic.

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.