Quotes About Detective

"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

To Sherlock Holmes she [Irene Adler] is always the woman.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

chapter 5   I pressed the bell, and in a minute a rich female voice gurgled in the speaking-tube. "Who is it, please?" "Lew Archer. Is Morris home?

Ross Macdonald

Perhaps you'd like a drink." "Not before lunch. I'm the new-type detective.

The redheaded homicide detective stepped through the door at 7:30 A.M. and out into the August heat that already had reached 88 degrees. By noon the temperature would hit 100, and by two or three o'clock it would be hovering around 105. Frayed nerves would then start to snap and produce a marked increase in the detective's business. Breadknife weather, the detective thought. Breadknives in the afternoon.

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth

Christie, in particular, was a great one for the locked room mystery. The victim retires to his room, the door is locked from within, nothing has been forced open and yet the person has been shot or stabbed or clubbed to death. How did this happen? The question has been answered in various ingenious ways, usually involving a brilliant detective who can pick out clues the way you and I never could.

Do you think you might want to stop kissing the nice detective and tell him how a guy tried to nab you in the Zodiac Zone?

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it's something like a detective novel, when you'd suspect that knowing who had really killed the countess would materially detract from the experience. (It doesn't, and besides, I often can't remember who the murderer was in the first place.)

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

THE SAINT, detective drama, based on the novels by Leslie Charteris.

The detective asked what Charles's demeanor had been when he had taken the bat away from her. Tylee replied that he looked like "a crazy person, screaming and his face was beet red." Ynclan wrote, "He looked like pure rage. Tylee said that was the craziest she had ever seen him. Tylee stated her uncle was kind of calm Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and just standing there in the doorway being protective of her mom.