A-study-in-scarlet Quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes.”

— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Most people, aware of the number of difficulties already present in a thief's life, were kind enough to use the same few hiding places.”

— Brent Weeks

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

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

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.”

— Linda Howard

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is…

— Agatha Christie

“When humans gather, crime is certain.”

— Charles Stross

“One of the reasons our work is even necessary has to do with the changing nature of violent crime itself. We all know about…

— John E. Douglas

“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

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

— Bill James