watching the two detectives from the next room.

“I carried the boxes to the detectives’ room and dropped them on my desk. I wasn’t all that surprised by what had happened. Jennifer…

— Blake Banner

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

— Michael Connelly

I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there?…

— Michael Connelly

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There…

— Dario Argento

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

— Abraham Zapruder

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic…

— Charley Pride

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers.…

— Jeff Lindsay

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of…

— Agatha Christie

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that…

— Chester Himes

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind…

— Ben Aaronovitch

This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an…

— Jennifer Estep

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

— Anonymous

Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting…

— C.E. Murphy

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

— John Sandford