Clue Solving Quotes

'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' was my favorite of all the things I ever did, because it was like doing a Sunday crossword puzzle and beating it.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.