Quotes About Detective

With the second book, I didn't have an ideal reader in mind, as it developed quite out of my control, this detective novel of why am I so full of anger, why did I pick up a guitar when I was poor and uneducated.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

The Clue in the Corn Maze Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner Illustrated by Robert Papp

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

Une poussière de petits souvenirs insignifiants qui traçaient malgré tout, en s'enchevêtrant les uns aux autres, la trame d'une vie. Celle de Dimeglio, inspecteur principal à la Brigade criminelle, indice 320. Une vie sans histoires.

'The Nice Guys' fulfilled my 1970s fantasy.

Well, Ms. Fontaine, you look damn good for a dead woman. Her response was to narrow her eyes, arch a brow. If that's some sort of cop humor, I'm afraid you'll have to translate.

The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop. Suffice it to say, I froze.

Hurry up, Mina. There's a dead body here for you!

The dead woman was Sarah Brandt.

The manner of a fool,' said Mr. Blackwood, 'when it masks the mental processes of a wise man, is an advantage of great worth to a detective.

a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues were actually in italics; but that is not McFate's way — even if one does learn to recognize certain obscure indications.

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.

A smile spread across her face. "Score one for the rookie detective." Her

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, he rolls onto his back

nothing has ever happened to Miss Marple. Everything happens around her, and this is the point: she has become wise through observation, not through experience.

Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

Well, then,' said Charlie, his face half hidden in the shadows. 'How long do you think this baby has been dead?

Me and you going after this guy—it's like the Hardy Boys meet Hannibal Lecter.

Detective Segel, the evidence shows that you experienced a penile erection when the defendant opened fire. Would you describe that as an appropriate response?

A cop with sharp features and sandy blond hair came over and sat down next to Tony. A cigarette dangled casually from his lips, so natural-looking that it seemed like a part of his face.

James Patterson

IN A CONFERENCE ROOM on the twelfth floor of One Police Plaza, I met Detective Beth Peters face-to-face for the first time, by the coffee cups.