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I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.