Quotes About Detective

So I shook my head and flipped the picture back onto my desk. "Very nice picture," I said. "Tell me, Detective, do you think a man can be too handsome?

Kraunauer was waiting for me, standing next to the same young and serious agent who had brought us up. "I'm beginning to believe," Kraunauer said, "that Detective Anderson may not like you.

No," Hood said. He leaned over me to the desk and the odor of unwashed detective overlaid with cheap cologne almost made me gag. Hood scooped up the photos and straightened as he stuffed them back into the envelope. With Hood a few feet away from me once more, I managed to breathe again, and since my curiosity was coming to a boil, I used the breath for something practical. "They're all very nice pictures," I said. "But so what?

If there really is a God, which is, at very best, extremely debatable, he has a terrible sense of humor. Because the detective in charge of deciphering the carnage is Detective Anderson, a man who has lived his life without making a friend of intelligence, wit, or competence. And

Vince shook it playfully. "Maybe it'll help Anderson figure out who the victim is this time," he said. I opened my mouth to say that it didn't seem likely, that Anderson wouldn't figure it out if he had notarized statements from the killer and the victim, and then I closed my mouth and took a step back and didn't say anything at all.

from a shoe print

the Matt Scudder novels (dark), including Eight Million Ways to Die, The Devil Knows You're Dead, and the Edgar-winning A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, and the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries (humorous), including The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, and The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Anna Katharine Green

THE LITTLE HOUSE AT CROIX-ROUSSE Georges Simenon

Ross Macdonald

He began with The Bigger They Come by Erle Stanley Gardner, before moving on to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.

I stuck with a mustache because... do you know Magnum P.I.?

Tom gave him a suspicious look. "Stanley, you've never actually worked a homicide investigation, right?" "No, but how hard can it be? You collect all the clues and you put them together, and voila. I have read a lot of mystery novels.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

los mejores inspectores de homicidios admitirán que en noventa de cada cien casos lo que salva la investigación es la abrumadora predisposición del asesino a la incompetencia o, cuando menos, al error garrafal.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson's lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric "Brains" Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates pathologist Morris Gerald "Big Ger" Cafferty Edinburgh's preeminent gangster

Rebus lifted a Guardian

Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.

The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

One of the interesting quirks of the aging process is that events that seem to have little or no impact at the time resonate with a thunderous importance later on, like an expertly constructed detective novel.