If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.
