Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.