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You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in. ’ (Kiara)

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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

Corpse, Corpses, Detective, Detectives, Novel

Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.

Bizarre, Criminals, Followed, Murder, Unofficial, Vance

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.

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Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

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Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

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