“Eli Hofstadter, Private Detective and Investigative services. I find” — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I thought so. Private detective on the shady side, eh?” “Not shady,” Latin denied. “Black as night.” — Norbert Davis Copy Share Image
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring. — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
“This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“Matthew kept hinting that Strike was somehow a fake. He seemed to feel that being a private detective was a far-fetched job,… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've always credited the private detective with a high degree of omniscience. Or is that only true in rental fiction? — John Paxton Copy Share Image
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“No visible scars. Hair dark brown, some gray. Eyes brown. Height six feet, one half inch. Weight about one ninety. Name Philip… — Raymond Chandler 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
“Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence… — Dean Koontz 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
Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed tea. And three mugs… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection." "But if no private detective… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“They had Rembrandt on the calendar that year, a rather smeary self-portrait due to imperfectly registered color plate. It showed him holding… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Robin caught the door before it closed on the dingy stairwell. An old-fashioned metal staircase spiraled up around an equally antiquated birdcage… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Scaife rationalized his foundations’ funding of an obsessive investigation of President Clinton’s marital infidelities during the 1990s that came to be known… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Newspapers and old magazines were piled everywhere. A door to an inner room burst open and Norman Z. Moody emerged. He was… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
“A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1) "Is this one of the… — Nina Jon Copy Share Image
To understand the current state of mind of both Sara Paretsky and her private detective alter ego, one must first roll back… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
Any time I think about sitting at a piano with Barry Manilow, I could start weeping. And then my other idea is… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
Walter Mosley was not the first black crime writer, nor was he the first to fuse genre conventions with larger social concerns.… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes it's better to believe in the impossible. To believe you are a secret agent or a private detective or a… — John David Anderson Copy Share Image
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Someone asked me when it was that I felt confident enough in my writing that I could rely on it as a… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
