It must be said that way. The crime novel is the most popular genre since a monster like Poe lay the groundwork with his detective Augustus Dupin. Also the most despised by the most critics intellectualoid. Although that has changed. And a lot. To start the week, and since the good weather is coming, which for me is the blackest, here goes selection of chosen phrases of some of the most representative writers. Of their works and of them.
"In everyone's life there are hidden chapters that hopefully can never be known." Agatha Christie. The case of the anonymous.
“I wonder if the police, and scores of other human beings exposed to the blows of life, do not suffer the same erosion. Disappearance of soft parts, resistance of resistant parts, desensitization, hardening. In the end, a true decadence. Fred Vargas. Run away fast, go far away.
“The policemen in this city are just as chorizo as everyone else. Sometimes they are more thieves than the thieves themselves. Philip Kerr. Deadly Prague.
"The only authentic philosophers left today are the policemen." JG Ballard. Cocaine nights.
"His long career as a policeman had taught him that there were not murderers, but people who committed murder. Henning Mankell.
"I don't like your manners, Mr. Marlowe," Kingsley said in a voice that, by itself, could have cracked a Brazil nut.
-Don't worry about it, I don't sell them.
Raymond Chandler. The Lady of the Lake.
"A novel in which someone does not kill another probably does not contain more than a lot of characters talking about trivialities, without that silent presence of death that constitutes one of the strongest spiritual bonds of humanity." GK Chesterton.
"Her philosophy is that if someone threatens her with a gun, then she goes and gets a bigger gun." Stieg Larsson. The girl who dreamed of a match and a can of gasoline.
«The notes indicated a limited man searching for the stars, and reaching almost all of them, limits overcome through furious perseverance. Absolute justice: anonymous, no promotions or glory. […] Wendell “Bud” White seen for the first time ”. James Ellroy. LA Confidential.
"Once the impossible is ruled out, what remains, however improbable it may seem, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle.
"In literature, crime is as old as love." Pierre Lemaitre. Irene.
«We have all sinned, (…). And we cannot expect compassion without showing it in our lives. PD James. Death comes to Pemberley.
"One does not want to believe that behind a kind smile hides the inconceivable." Victor of the Tree. The eve of almost everything.
“Weak people tend to be attracted to the Church. And people who want to have power over weak people, too. asa larsson. Northern Lights.
"Life was sometimes so beautiful that it did not resemble life." Arturo Perez-Reverte. Queen of the South.
Nothing is fair. The best you can hope for is to make it logical. Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The game of the angel.
«Caldas did not finish the sentence. He saw rain in the blue eyes of the woman and decided not to insist more. Sunday Villar. The beach of the drowned.
-I'm going to need an investigator like you in the next few days. That is, the investigator you are when you are not drunk. So the question is, can you stay sober?
-You know very well that I can, boss. But do I want to?Jo Nesbø. Devil's star.
«The glorification of ignorance. Everything prepared to take advantage of it. The sale of anger and resentment as a mere formula to entertain ». John verdon. Leave the devil alone.
Show me a player and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. Mario Puzo. The Godfather.
"The key to manipulation is to put men in touch with their most intense desires." Mark Chicot. The assassination of Pythagoras.
Hate can do everything. It can even with hatred. Don winslow. The cartel.
I would like more explanation about Black literature, I cannot find a clear definition and why it is related to MAGIC, there is white magic and black magic, ????????