“The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two… — Barry White Copy Share Image
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story,… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“I have some crack sources—cops who call me, and say, “Hey, there’s a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat… — Kristi Belcamino Copy Share Image
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ...… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked… — Clint Walker Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability,… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
There should be a detective show called "Johnny Monkey," because every week you could have a guy say "I ain't gonna get… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living … — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after… — Cornelia Funke 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
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
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head. — Carolyn Keene 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
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![“Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I…” quote by Samuel Barnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/111/samuel-barnett-15432_agency_because-i-m-playing-dirk-gently-in-dirk_2017766.jpg)
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