Quotes About Detective

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

them. "Looking up an old mystery?" he'd asked.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

The game-playing aspects of detective fiction came into prominence only after the First World War, as a symptom of people's reaction to carnage and bereavement; there was a hunger for escapism, and readers relished having the chance to solve a puzzle set in a detective story.

The very first detective fiction, written by Edgar Allan Poe, may have been set in Paris, but the book usually described as the first detective novel was Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery, republished recently by the British Library.

The Agency By Pamela Griffiths

conduct of a publicly funded morgue. Pittsburgh Detective Rich Meister shared his insights, and Lynne Cox taught me about the mental challenges and physiological

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer." "I sometimes think I should have been a good one." "Why?" "Because I am patient.

Sherlock Holmes could put the tiniest clues together to find the truth. He was almost impossible to fool. So it might seem surprising that his creator, Sir Arthur, believed in fairies. But he did.

The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.

The senior detective in charge of the biggest manhunt in British criminal history didn't know how to work a tape recorder.

You could never quite grasp that in order to solve a mystery there must be a mystery to solve.

Breitwieser has not requested a lawyer, and Von der Mühll wants to keep it that way, so the detective is playing up his compassion, not his size. Muscle isn't needed here; flattery is.

This is Tez Jones," I said. "He's a police detective from Tampa." "Oh, my," said Martha, blinking up at him. "Is something wrong?" "Nope," said Tez, grinning at her and offering a saucy wink. "I'm just the boyfriend." "Well, then." She sized him up, and nodded."It's about time Elizabeth found someone who deserved her." "I worship at her dainty feet.

Fortunately, a detective is always present to take over when I break the surface. The psychological work has been done and it is up to the detectives to process the legal side regarding confessions and the trial. The relationship between us is one of utter trust. The detectives have to trust me to do my work but I can understand that it is very difficult for them not to interrupt. I trust them to catch us when we surface and to take over.

South Africa has the third highest murder rate in the world, with Colombia and Swaziland ahead of it. The high rate of murder illustrates the amount of work that a Murder and Robbery detective has to cope with, and yet South Africa holds the record for apprehending serial killers within three to six months of a special investigation team being established, provided the serial killer stays active.

I don't know yet what we're called, or if we have a name. I know so little and need to learn so much. I'm many things, detective, and all of them love you.

Keep it. When you have enough of my clothes at your place, I'll have to start staying overnight so I can get dressed." "Dream on, Savoie." "Every night, detective.

Detective, any warm-blooded male with a pulse would have his hand on your glorious ass. May I?" "Knock yourself out." His fingertips sketched over that tight sheen of Lycra before cupping a taut globe for a squeeze. "What kind of workout do you do to get that kind of muscle tone?" She put her face up close to his. "I beat the shit outta guys who grab my ass.

In The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale wrote of the murder of a boy Eldon's age, "Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional—to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions.