This is the last time I ever get a private detective off…

“When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so…

— Abramelin Keldor

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

“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.”

— William Kely McClung

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

— Chelsea Cain

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

— Agatha Christie

Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the…

— Rafael Yglesias

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

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

— P. D. James

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think…

— Carl Hiaasen

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and proud of…

— Peggy A. Edelheit

“...you cannot enter into an investigation with a philosophy that dictates the outcome. Objectivity is paramount; this is the first principle of detective work…

— Anonymous

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the…

— Rex Stout

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

— Eva Mendes

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving…

— Christopher Bollen