Detective Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“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

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

— Rachel Howzell Hall

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

— Art Hochberg

“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

“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.”

— B.J. Daniels

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

— John Buchan

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

— Glen Klinkhart

“I’ve worked murders for fifteen years, and some of the places you end up… I don’t know, you’re standing over bodies in these holes,…

— Tim Weaver

“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught…

— Sara Sheridan

“Crime Squad would have been great if it weren’t for the murders. Murders were shit. Murders meant long hours, writing reports, endless meetings and…

— Jo Nesbø

“If I ever become a serial murderer, I'll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station -…

— Patricia Briggs