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)
“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)