To Sally, Who Showed Me The Benefits

Writing Detective Stories Is About Writing Light Literature, For Entertainment. It Isn't Primarily A Question Of Writing Propaganda Or Classical Literature.

Only A Woman Who Had Killed A Man In Battle Was Allowed To Give Up Her Virginity.

In Ordinary Detective Novels You Never See The Consequences Of What Happens In A Story In The Next Book. That You Do In Mine.

Those Pointless Equations, To Which No Solution Exists, Are Called Absurdities.

Her Absence Had Felt Like Torture--almost A Form Of Personal Punishment. He Had Nobody To Discuss His Feelings With, And For The First Time He Realised With Appalling Clarity What A Destructive Hold She Had Over Him.