Detectives Quote by Jennifer Echols

I hate that people are trying to detective work into my past, it bothers me... But it's, whatever, I haven't got anything to hide.

— Angus Cloud

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

— Agatha Christie

There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or…

— Cressida Dick

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

— Ilona Andrews

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things…

— Kristian Nairn

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

— Shirley Jackson

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

— Natsuo Kirino

“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

Sometimes you may make an announcement about an investigation and then you turn out not to do anything about it, but nonetheless it adversely…

— Alberto Gonzales

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works…

— Alexandra Daddario

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and…

— Mary Lavin

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of…

— Kathleen Winsor