Quotes About Detective

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

D'ye know the Black Swan, East India Dock Road?' Troy shook his head. 'Bloke found dead in his room. Blood all over the place. Door locked from the inside. A real Sherlock Holmes-er.

I'm terribly sorry, but I really don't see how I can help you.' It was the sort of line that if uttered in a play by J. B. Priestley would lead to the host getting up to heave on the bell-pull prior to the butler showing the detective his way out and his place in society.

I wound up playing secret agent/detective/tour guide to a sexy robot. If that sounds like the sort of punishment that would be handed out in a particularly surrealist purgatory, congratulations. You're not wrong.

One does not call down archangels in my city, Detective, if one cares to go unnoticed.

Detective Crown Investigator Abigail Irene Garrett had no one to turn to for comfort on a dismal night in April. When the chill slipped like an unwelcome guest between sheet and featherbed and her faded blue eyes came open, Garrett's hand crept automatically to the pistol under her pillow. Her half-awakened intellect checked her wards and guards. Intact. Despite the muffled impact of her heart against her ribcage, she was as alone as she should have been.

A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.

The unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Se considera insoluble este misterio por las mismas razones que deberían inducir a considerarlo solucionable. (E. A. Poe. Los crímenes de la calle Morgue)

Anyway," he said, his gaze lifting to hers. "We're a team, right?" She couldn't help but smile. "That's us, one of the great detective couples. Like Nick and Nora." He mugged a face. "More like Bonnie and Clyde." "Emma Peel and John Steed." Tucker laughed. "Shaggy and Scooby Doo.

So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.

I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.