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“There must be evidence somewhere, you know. I know you've all worked like beavers, but I'm going to work like a king beaver. and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“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

“He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police…

— Catherine Aird

“You've been keeping in touch with the reporter?" "He came by the diner the other day. And that reminds me, you told me he…

— Kate Young

“Well,' the Divisional Commander said, 'one of our police inspectors has taken a possible serial killer from the custody block and nobody knows where…

— Jo Nesbø

“Doc recalled the simple advice that his father gave him upon becoming a lawman: “Get all the evidence you can, son. Then put yourself…

— David Grann

“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

“Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the…

— Nikolai Gogol

“I’m Detective Mitch Lawson.”

— Kristen Ashley

“I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It…

— Mark Twain

“The detective had a kidnapping, he had a knife and he had blood. He had an insane old man. He was going in.”

— Darin Gibby