“Ah ha!" the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. "The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!” — Clare Havens Copy Share Image
“Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
“I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I have an aunt who was a detective in D.C. for over 25 years, and I always wondered how she was able… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
“XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for… — Michael Levitt Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,'… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I envisaged a perfect detective’s assistant. She’d have long, wavy blonde hair, a short skirt, and curves in all the right places.… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
“The only reason you need me at all, John, is because Magick actually works . If it were all just smoke and… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed.… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It was always the same for her when she arrived to meet the body. After she unbuckled her seat belt, after she… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Sevarin had been dismissive about the chance of finding out anything useful from the cops, but when it came to getting information,… — sarah zettel Copy Share Image
“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch. — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
“You're a cop aren't you? A private detective. Isn't that the same thing? The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover… — Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Copy Share Image
“Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.” — Emma Jane Holloway Copy Share Image
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Firstly,” Jackaby said with a sigh, “a ‘proper detective’ is about the last thing a good detective wants to look like, most… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was… — Dave Legeno Copy Share Image
Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative,'he said as Molly came out in a fluster” — M.R.C. Kasasian Copy Share Image
I loved 'True Detective' so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, 'What… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
We were seeing TV becoming increasingly cinematic, with stuff like 'True Detective.' And 'Game of Thrones' opened up 'genre TV' and showed… — Ross Duffer Copy Share Image
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey. — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
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