Routine work Quote by Agatha Christie

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”

— Elizabeth Savage

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and…

— A.A. Milne

“Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch." [From a…

— Rupert Hart-Davis

“Be like a detective. See what’s going on around you.”

— Art Hochberg

“This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.”

— Sophie Kinsella

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino