Detectives Quote by Agatha Christie

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You don't have to have a murdered sister to be a good homicide detective, but it helps.”

— Glen Klinkhart

“Sure, I had been accused of murder by my family and was wrapped up in a bizarre investigation, but there were such cute boys…

— Tamara Summers

“watching the two detectives from the next room.”

— Michael Connelly

“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

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

— Agatha Christie

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims…

— Agatha Christie

“The significance test is the detective, not the judge.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“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

“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started…

— Alden Bell

“They unlike their deceitful brothers, uphold the laws of our realm.”

— Candace Knoebel