"To summarize to this point: Detective fiction is based on a mysterious crime, and this crime must be solved because (it is assumed) law and order are in themselves valuable; the detective who investigates the mystery can be official or amateur, but in either case represents the positive values in so"
"More significantly, the story has the first mention of masks, an image that John would use over and over. He seems to have seen the world as full of people hiding their true fellings with public masks."
"Friends don't remember that he smoked in earlier years, but beginning at Haverford, he was a chain smoker. He often carried a pipe as well, but that was to create an image: He seldom lit it."
"During Carr's editorship of The Haverfordian, 1926-27, it is not always obvious which poems and stories were written by which member of the staff. Professor Edward Snyder of the English Department said that, using various pen names, young Carr on at least one occasion wrote an entire issue himself."
"Raymond Chandler was actually just as much a romanticist as John Dickson Carr, and his dectctive, Philip Marlowe, is as much a lone adventurer as any character whom Carr created or admired. But Carr disliked Chandler's novels more than those of any other writer, and Chandler hated Carr's."
"In 1950, Carr wrote a review for The New York Times of Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder in which he criticized Chandler while, unexpectedly, finding some good things to say about Dashiell Hammett. In the title easy, Chandler had attacked the British detective novel and The Detection Club "