Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.