![]() Snow and Kingsley Amis may be classed as distinguished straight, if not great, novelists, and both have written detective stories. Trollope came very near to writing a mystery novel in Phineas Redux C.P. Graham Green wrote a number of thrillers he called entertainments. It’s one of the world’s greatest novels and if we don’t think of it as a thriller, and would indeed be shocked to hear it called so, this isn’t because its form and progress is snot that of a thriller but because the writing and the examination of motive, guilt and remorse transcend to an amazing degree the usual suspense novel limitations. In spite of what Julian Symons says in his excellent book Bloody Murder, Crime and Punishment is a thriller. Of course great writers do contribute to the detective–or, let us say, suspense– genre. ![]() I find it pleasant for me and popular with my readers. Also I have a good memory and so this stuff is stored and comes out. I am a very catholic reader and I suppose I read generally about five books a week. I quote because I like reading and also because my readers have come to expect this kind of thing, especially from Chief Inspector Wexford who is a great reader. RR: It never occurred to me to quote writers of mystery in this way.
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