Quotes About Detective

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

Interviewer: What does it mean to you to be a Silettian detective? Murray: (Pause.) It means I was blind, and now I can see. Interviewer: And the drinking? Murray: Well. Some people need glasses to see, you know.

I'd met him about five years back on the Case of the Kleptomaniacal Occultist

To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a payless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory.

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a pathless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory. "Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues.

You? You're no more a detective than I am a ballet dancer," he exclaimed. "I'd like to see you in tights and a tutu.

No doubt Gervase Fen or Peter Wimsey would immediately have grasped the vital clue revealing the identity of the murderer. But to me it looked like wreckage.

You know, if Tony had turned you over his knee more often instead of spoiling you rotten, you'd be a happy housewife now, instead of playing at detective and making it harder for us to get our job done. But I'm a happy detective, Bobby, and I made a lousy housewife.

But then, did I look like a detective? Come to think of it, most people don't try to guess what women do for a living by the way they look - but they are usually astounded to find out what I do.

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

He was an inspector. I could tell because he wasn't wearing a uniform. He also had a very hairy nose. It looked as if there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils.*2

The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story which means that there are clues and Red Herrings.

Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot.

He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clear Footprints? Footprints. A man's or a woman's? Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of s gigantic hound!

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

Come, Watson, come!' he cried. 'The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!' Ten minutes later we were both in a cab and rattling through the silent streets on our way to Charing Cross Station.

You say that your fare told you that he was a detective? Yes, he did. When did he say this? When he left me. Did he say anything more? He mentioned his name. Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned? "His name, said the cabman, was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex…there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.