382 Quotes About Crime-fiction
- Author Ian Rankin
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You double bolted your door against the psychopath with the chainsaw, only to be stabbed in the back by your lover, husband, son or neighbour.
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- Author Ian Rankin
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Wars were connected by arms manufacturers, the same arms manufacturers who made the guns used in robberies, who made the guns used by crazy people in America when they when on the rampage in a shopping centre or hamburger restaurant. So already you had connection between hamburgers and dictators. Start from there and the thing just grew and grew.
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- Author S.W. Frank
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Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
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- Author Cornell Woolrich
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His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.
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- Author Marie McWilliams
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The city outside, so busy, so full of life, seemed in stark contrast to the deathly silence inside their home. It seemed...like a muffled silence, as if the house itself was holding its breath, waiting...
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- Author Dorothy B. Hughes
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Danger is sweet.
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- Author Mahendra Jakhar
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Man-eaters are finally shot dead.
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- Author Mahendra Jakhar
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Eventually everyone dies, but death, in various forms and ways, still comes as a shock. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Or they consign you to flames. The flesh sizzles and the bones crackle. be grateful it happens in that order.
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- Author Ed Lynskey
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In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin’s roofline a bursting fireball.
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