Quotes About Detective

A body? Of a person? Dead?" "Bodies usually are. And this one was very dead indeed.

searched for clues and fingerprints. But I will be kind to

You may have heard of the one called Chute, on Mars, who wrote a novel called Waste, a metaphysical detective novel about the nature of life and waste that featured Smeg, the detective.

I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.

I'm a season behind on Sherlock

Un niño, radioactivo de tanta curiosidad, mordió a la chica detective y en aquel preciso instante ella vio todas las respuestas, todas al mismo tiempo.

Something else," he told Atkins. He stood with his nose an inch away from the sergeant's, hands stuffed deep in the pockets of his coat. "What does Lucifer mean?" "Light Bearer." "And what is the stuff of the universe?" "Energy." "What is energy's commonest form?" "Light." "I know." And with that, the detective walked away, listing slowly through the squad room and down the stairs. He didn't come back.

This is one of the great charms of Poirot's investigations, for they reveal a world where manners and morals are quite different from today. There are no overt and unnecessary sex scenes, no alcoholic, haunted detectives in Poirot's world. He lives in a simpler, some would say more human, era: a lost England, seen through the admiring eyes of this foreigner, this little Belgian detective.

Detective Bone

Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective

Do you know what sort of trouble you are courting?" "Courting?" I gave him a scornful look. "I married it long ago. As our favorite detective, Arcadia Brown, would say to her faithful Garvin, 'Excelsior!

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I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.

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?

in Sherlock Holmes's day, the Trichinopoly cigar ash helped only if one of the suspects smoked Trichinopoly cigars.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

If you look closely enough, there are bloodstains.

'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' was my favorite of all the things I ever did, because it was like doing a Sunday crossword puzzle and beating it.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.