Famous quotes containing the words detective story, detective and/or story:
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.”
—Raymond Chandler (18881959)
“For slowly even her sense of him
And love itself were growing dim.
He no more drew the smile he sought.
The story is she died of thought.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)