Quotes About Detective

I thought about how you could kill a victim only once, but how a crime scene could die a thousand deaths.

He was right, but he had no idea just how very different she could be. Perhaps she'd show him. He reached for her hand. The choice was made. The whore had the cop under her spell. From the shadows, he watched as Cara and her detective left the bar…the human had his fucking hands all over her.

Could we get on with this? I have a case waiting." Annette's brows rose. "Jane, you and I both deal with the dead. You're a homicide detective—any case you have can just keep waiting. Not like the guy will get any deader.

Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my hand at a detective story – a thriller with a murder and buried treasure, etc. – he will help me with it if I like.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

I was a teenager when 'Miami Vice' came out, and that was such a huge show.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It's what doctors most love to do.

Being a therapist is like being a detective looking for clues to solve a mystery, to find the reasons underlying the "presenting problem," which in this case is the shoplifting

One time I thought I might try to write my own. About a lady detective. One should follow one's heart, you know, because before you realize it, your time on this earth is done and you're at death's door.

No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. That ruled out the Dudley Do-Right approach to finding the killer.

Where is your unit? Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. Right where it's always been, dollface.

No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. That ruled out the Dudley Do-Right approach to finding the killer.

He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken, every time.

I think I'd better plead the fifth." "Isn't that an admission of guilt, Detective?" "Legally, it's a neutral position." "Oh, but it's morally damning, isn't it?" "Morally?" His deep brown eyes sparkled and the weight in Tessa's belly melted all over her insides. "Oh, yeah," he said softly. "Morally, it's a big problem.

Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence of a benign deity.

I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum

It's always better to know. It is. That's the great thing about being a detective. Information makes you stronger. And if it's bad news, it makes you even stronger.

I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was called 'Violent Screen,' and the other 'Now Playing at the Valencia.' Bantam and Simon and Schuster.

There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.

Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside

Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere —a detective raises the roof, figuratively.

You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?

Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it's time to move on.

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.