Quotes About Detective

A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.

guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.

the Charles-Street Avenue house.

disappearing faster than weekend houseguests in an Agatha Christie story.

I had my papers in for detective before I left. I've got my forensics certifications. I notice stuff. I sweat the details. And this is my town," she added. "I know everybody here. And I mean everybody, because there aren't that many of us.

Zero Day was here.

Do you know who did it?

prevaricate. As a detective and now a PI, he had to

remarkable was that she had been the first female detective in the Burlington Police Department. As far as he knew she was still the only one. And she had been his partner. They had made more arrests leading to more convictions than anyone in

Rinehart added, "Which means he's on the East Coast. Or at least he was." Puller continued to stare at Carter. "When did

Duelo de ingenio con el inspector Ford El secuestro extravagante Os quiere, Kermit. P.S. Esto no es una broma. Adjunto una broma para que podáis apreciar la diferencia

Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...

Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

I mean it, it's another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you'll get nowhere as a detective. She's everybody's conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity's backbone. Throughout history, she's gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.

Life is not like detective stories. There is a wider scope for interpretation. The answers to all the questions that beset you are not in facts, which are the greatest illusion of all, but in your own heart, in your own habits, in your limitations, in your fear.

I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?" She sighs heavily. "No getting anything past you, huh?" "I also often notice when water is wet. I have a keen detective's mind like that.

Good morning,' I say. 'I'm DI Samuel Owusu. This is Saffron Brown from our forensics team.' I see Jason Mott trying very hard not to look as if he is excited to be in the presence of two real-life detectives – and failing. 'I hear you have found something. Maybe you could explain?

Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really, I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

In short, it is Detective Anderson. He looks up and sees me through the glass, and he smiles. It is not a smile that encourages in me any of the finer feelings. It is instead a smile that says to me, quite clearly, it is time for all Hope to die. Hope obliges.

Before I could open my mouth and let out the cranky comeback that was lurking there, a massive foot clomped at the doorway, and a large dark shadow fell over the shreds of my pleasant morning. I looked around, and there, in person, was the end of all happy thoughts. Detective Hood leaned against the doorframe and gave us his very best mean smile. "Looka this," he said. "Wall-to-wall loser.