Baker street Quote by Mizuki Nomura

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Robert Kiyosaki

“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

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving…

— Christopher Bollen

“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

“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

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

— Dashiell Hammett

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

— Lisa Lutz

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

— Douglas Adams

“The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

— Elsa Barker