Quotes About Detective

About From Hell) The idea was to do a documentary comic about a murder. I concluded that there was a way of approaching the [Ripper] murders in a completely different way. I changed the emphasis from 'whodunit' to 'what happened'. I'd seen advertisements for Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. A holistic detective? You wouldn't just have to solve the crime, you'd have to solve the entire world that that crime happened in. That was the twist that I needed.

Petty crimes don't have to have long sentences. Come on, man, you know damned well that I got more time than most. Most of the cons in there are way long on their time. State prison, I would have done a month or two. Private prison, they need to find a way to keep you. It's a business, Detective. Ain't nothin' to do with corrections. You already figured all this out.

The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!

There lived ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown

Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.

Donald J. Sobol

Donald J. Sobol

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Jessica Fletcher

author Agatha Christie was knowledgeable

Okay," Drake said, "I'll get my man on the job and have him up there. Anything else?" "That's all for now," Mason said. "Well, wait a minute! This rancher, Overbrook, looks like a big, good-natured, rugged individual, but I'd like to find out something about him.

Angeles in the plain-clothes division

Erle Stanley Gardner

When I was cowering in the ambulance, waiting for Joe Vik to come for me and Jillian, it was Detective Glenn who was outside trying to give us cover. Sure, I found my courage. So did Jillian . . . god, did she ever. But Glenn had it all along. He died. We lived. Would Glenn turn away and leave this man on his doorstep? This grieving man. Fuck me.

Because if it weren't a hopeless case, he wouldn't be waiting for me on my doorstep. I don't get the low-hanging fruit, the "It was the handyman with the criminal past" type of cases. I get the ones where there is no evidence. No clues. Not even a body. Just an empty place where a person used to be.

No detective ever solved a mystery without the help of a hot jam doughnut.

She read detective stories when she wanted to escape, when she had flu or when she needed to forget some man or other.

Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.

Britain can claim to lead the world in murder because it was a country that industrialized early. Other countries, going through the same process later, caught up and produced their own genres of detective fiction.

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

You're fishing, Detective. Problem is you've got a line in the water, but you got no bait on your hook.

black ballistic vest, blue jeans, and a Seattle Mariners baseball cap. "Detective Crosswhite?" Tracy shook the woman's hand and noticed that it felt small and soft. "Just Tracy. You're Officer Pryor." "Katie. I really appreciate this. I'm sorry to take up