Quotes About Detective

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

I mean, that number on the wall for a start! What sort of person bludgeons someone to death and then wastes time painting cryptic messages for the police to find?

In fact, Fraser had often heard the detective remark that there was no such thing as a coincidence. There was a chapter in The Landscape of Criminal Investigation where he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

The unsigned will is one of those tropes of detective fiction that I've come to dislike, only because it's so overused. In real life, a lot of people don't even bother to make a will but then we've all managed to persuade ourselves that we're going to live for ever. They certainly don't go round the place threatening to change it in order to give someone the perfect excuse to come and kill them. It looked as if Alan Conway had done exactly that.

Anthony Horowitz

Victorian novel, perhaps something by Wilkie Collins.

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Atticus Pünd had often said that there were no coincidences when you were investigating a crime. 'Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.

Anthony Horowitz

The word is murder.

He was someone who was only fully alive when he was working on a case. He needed there to have been a murder or some other violent crime. It was his entire raison d'être – another posh phrase which I am sure he would have hated.

you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.

and after arriving in England, he had set himself up as a private detective, helping the police on numerous occasions. He

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to write 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Everyone is doing forensics.

Franklin W. Dixon

Frank parked the car at a drugstore and the two boys hurried to a telephone booth inside. Leafing through the Bayport directory, they soon found the attorney's residential listing.

Franklin W. Dixon