Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. — Bill James Copy Share Image
If you have to play detective in your relationship, then its time to move on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“You’re fishing, Detective. Problem is you’ve got a line in the water, but you got no bait on your hook.” — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
“His voice was the elaborately casual voice of the tough guy in pictures. Pictures have made them all like that.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Ah ha!" the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. "The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!” — Clare Havens Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different… — Nic Pizzolatto 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 hate that people are trying to detective work into my past, it bothers me... But it's, whatever, I haven't got anything… — Angus Cloud Copy Share Image
The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me… — Charlotte Ross Copy Share Image
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George 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
“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
“Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether… — Keigo Higashino Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily. — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I… — Jennifer Echols 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
“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 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
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
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious. — Mark Waid 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
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
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'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
“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
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
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
