Famous quotes containing the words detective and/or von:
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)