Quotes About Detective

In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.

Bat stood in the open door and said I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department, you heinous fucking mongoloid, and there is nothing I cannot do.

Detective John Tallow, 1st Precinct. You, said Scarly. I hate you so much my dick is hard.

HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER P.I.P.

Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

Though his formal education had ended after seventh grade, he grew up to be a voracious consumer of dime detective novels, tabloid newspapers, and the tracts of various occult and pseudoscientific beliefs—phrenology, astronomy, palmistry, spiritualism.

When they arrived in Rochester, Buell and his companion proceeded straight to the Powers Hotel, where they informed the house detective of their suspicions.

Your list of suspects, of course. Don't you watch TV? Don't you read books? How do you expect to solve a mystery if you're not keeping a list?

Of course it is. Likes are power," Mintner said, and looked at Eve. "You know what I'm saying. Isn't that how you became a homicide detective?

and listened to one of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career that spanned about as many books, solved one major murder after another and yet his bosses still doubted his skill and integrity, regularly undermined his work, and repeatedly investigated him for misconduct. It frustrated her even more than it did him. His problem, she thought, was that he didn't know how to play politics.

The point of an interrogation is not to get a confession. A successful interrogation, Duncan once told Eve, is when you walk out of the room with any information, no matter how small, that advances the investigation.

Monk guzzled the water and tossed the empty bottle over his shoulder.

Jayda, you know what that sounds like to me? A desperate rationalization to soothe a guilty conscience." "Your opinion is meaningless, Detective. Adultery isn't a crime and telling his wife about our purely carnal relationship now would only add to her pain.

Detective Pavone, I'm Harold Spivey, Kim's father. I believe the park is a killing field and I know my daughter wouldn't have camped there if she'd known about the shootings. Nobody would.

The only thing more humiliating than a detective who pisses his pants is one who can't be more than five feet away from a toilet for fear he'll shit himself.

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career

may have been the nicest thing anyone had said to Eve since she'd become a homicide detective. She wasn't alone. She wasn't hated by everybody. There were people she could trust, who cared about her even if they didn't actually know her. Eve

A mystery is solved with a story.

A mystery is solved with a story. The story starts with a clue, but the trouble is that you usually have no idea what the clue is, even if you think you know.

The minute Bigs hired you, I knew you'd make trouble." "I'm a detective," I replied. "Trouble is my business.

Sir," said the young man in intense excitement, "a mystery has been committed!" "Ha!" said the Great Detective, his eye kindling, "is it such as to completely baffle the police of the entire continent?" "They are so completely baffled with it," said the secretary, "that they are lying collapsed in heaps; many of them have committed suicide.

With the Great Detective to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Diesel is back, Ranger said. Yes. How did you know? I woke up with a migraine this morning. Ranger said.

It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due. Carl Costanza - Seven Up