Life Quote by Jackson MacKenzie

“if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from your life immediately”

— Jackson MacKenzie

“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 had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent…

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Art Hochberg

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

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

“Shall we get on with detective-ing now?” “Yep. Detective away.”

— Rachel Howzell Hall

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or…

— Christopher Bollen

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Being a detective can be dangerous! Thanks for the assist.”

— Franklin W. Dixon

“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

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem