If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have a murdered sister to be a good homicide detective, but it helps.” — Glen Klinkhart Copy Share Image
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.” — Steven David Levine Copy Share Image
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. — Bill James Copy Share Image
I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk.… — Joelle Carter Copy Share Image
When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for you, Detective Esteban. Because I'm all out of patience, and you're all out of time. I'm sure we'll… — H.L. Sudler Copy Share Image
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a… — Sherman Austin Copy Share Image
The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode. — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things.… — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a real good detective. I feel like I know who's got my best interest at heart and who… — Lainey Wilson Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
“Good and evil,” Nick said. “Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“They were asking Cullen to tell them things that Cullen believed he could not tell them. The detectives’ job was to help… — Charles Graeber Copy Share Image
“Nick laughed and pet the Wangdoodle on the head. “Esperto, you silly boy,” he said to the Wangdoodle. “Usually, Esperto only transforms… — Abramelin Keldor 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
“It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I get a little obsessive, it was my hallmark as a coach. I'm more effective when it gets personal and I tend… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
“My legion!” Stanley said. “I have achieved an even greater level of mastery! Behold!” He held up his beer mug and pointed… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.” — Dianne Harman Copy Share Image
“One of the rules of the Detective Society is that we never say no to tea.” — Robin Stevens Copy Share Image
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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