Famous quotes containing the words detective and/or novels:
“You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)