Quotes About Detective

The Brits make the best murder mysteries - I mean, did you see 'Broadchurch'? Wasn't it amazing? I love the mysteries and trying to put it all together.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.

I would love to do a mystery movie.

I'm the Nancy Drew of drag!

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

Don't care. It's a mystery. Know what I like about mysteries? They're mysterious.

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

And since I wanted you to feel as pleasurable the one thing that frightens us—namely, the metaphysical shudder—I had only to choose (from among the model plots) the most metaphysical and philosophical: the detective novel.

As he often did, he remembered reading the opening of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, where Philip Marlowe itemises his smartest outfit then observes, 'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

and over, like a detective, looking for clues and hints of emotion.

Detective Sergeant Jonathan Searle, a Cambridge-educated art historian who worked at Special Branch, the muscle behind British intelligence on national security and espionage.

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her. And really, really , when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.

The detective cleared his throat. It sounded like he was reading. "At seven twenty p.m., an officer in Rock Creek Park interrupted an assault and robbery in progress. The victim was a female

Debugging — the classic mystery game where you are the victim, the detective, and the murderer.

And talking of powers of deduction, I've just taken on an interesting new case.

A Vollmer maxim hit home: "In murders of extreme passion, the killer will always betray his pathology. If the detective is willing to sort physical evidence objectively and then think subjectively from the killer's viewpoint, he will often solve crimes that are baffling in their randomness.

and they got a 459 thing going.

Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.