Quotes About Detective

Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Murder and a glass of wine: priceless

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.

I watch a lot of Law & Order. Olivia Benson is my spirit animal.

I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

why was Weeks virtually

You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.

Edgar Wallace

In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a well-rounded detective was a jibe around his weight.

En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

I asked if I could use the bathroom. She showed me, down the hall, and I went, though I really had nothing much to pass but the time, and on the way back there was an open door and I entered. A good detective doesn't have to be invited. There

STUDY IN SCARLET (ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR'S

Mysteries are like cayenne for the brain. The senses do pick up. Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed Judge Crater? How did I burn through my paycheck so fast? Such questions can intrigue or infuriate, but the mind snaps to attention. from the Introduction

Wolfe snorted. "The man's a fool. It's only a cow pasture." Being a good detective, he produced his evidence by pointing to a brown circular heap near our feet.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]