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Quotes About Detective

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~ Ted Bell
Dirty Harriet there is a loose cannon. She pulled a gun on my men." "They were unconscious." "What if they weren't? We'd have had a fire fight in the middle of the street on Christmas night." "Do you really want someone like that around your daughter?" "Considering she detected the threat against this home when your men couldn't, yes.
~ Julie Miller
Client reports. Jack was a private detective." "I don't understand." "I'm— uh— a ghostwriter.
~ Julie Smith
I write detective novels when I'm not ghostwriting. I'd never gotten any of them published, and that, of course, was the main thing I didn't want to think about. But writing them is what keeps me going.
~ Julie Smith
I've always been a fan of investigation shows.
~ India Eisley
I am a fan of crime investigative series.
~ Kunal Khemu
While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.
~ Sherman Austin
That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him.
~ Tom King
By Timothy! By Timothy, if it isn't Scotland Yard!
~ Francis Durbridge
with a duffel bag over his shoulder.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
She assumes," Wax said, "that our detective style isn't normally the punchy-punchy, stabby-stabby type." "To be fair," Wayne said, "it's usually a more shooty-shooty, whacky-whacky type.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Looks like we're going to need a new prime suspect, Wax," Wayne said. "This one downright refuses to not be dead already.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The house wasn't locked. Wallander looked
~ Henning Mankell
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
~ Agatha Christie
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
~ Alain Resnais
John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.
~ Ransom Riggs
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.
~ Roger Stone
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
~ Sergio Aragones
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.
~ Patti Smith
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
~ Robert Winston
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
~ Stanley Bing
The detective had moved to Fort Lauderdale from St. Paul because his wife had inexplicably yearned to experience humidity.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Poison," said Rose Jewell with a frown. "No thanks." She was about forty years old and fearlessly attractive. The detective office had come to a standstill when she'd walked in—white cotton pullover, tight stonewashed jeans, high heels. Her hair was a wattage of blond unknown in Minnesota, the land of blondes. Even Rolvaag was slightly nervous.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Detective Karl Rolvaag belonged in the Midwest. This he knew in his heart, and he was reminded of it every day when he went to work.
~ Carl Hiaasen