Contrary to popular belief Quote by Simon Kernick

“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

“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'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

“Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience.”

— Marshall Thornton

“(She’d always wondered, or even daydreamed, what it was like to actually work with great detectives, rather than just read about them. It was…

— Genevieve Cogman

“I would’ve never guessed that a life in law enforcement was mostly spent waiting, that catching criminals requires not just clever thinking and a…

— Amy Stewart

“Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened…

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Franklin W. Dixon

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

— Glen Klinkhart

“Are you going to be making a point any time soon, or are you holding up the game to brag about your detective skills?”

— Tarryn Fisher

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Jackson MacKenzie