I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.