As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

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  Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

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  Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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  Everything in a story should be credible.

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  Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea

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  I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about reg

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  I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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• Rex Stout:

  One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of m