Quotes About Detective

If you're going to ask me to provide myself with three nice little alibis," said Hersey, "you may as well know straight away that I can't do it. I seem to remember reading somewhere that that makes me innocent and I'm sure I hope it's true" "It's in the best tradition of detective fiction, I understand," said Allyen with a smile.

Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever.

I, Rahotep, youngest chief detective of the Thebes Medjay division,

Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

me, a homegrown detective, a private investigator of signs and coincidences. He evidently noticed my unease,

I went over and rolled the woman over on her back. She couldn't have been much over twenty-two or three; little, gray-eyed blonde. There was a knife in her side, under the arm. There was a .38 automatic near her outstretched hand. She was very dead.

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, detective independiente, se tomó el cuerpo con las manos y se estrechó en un autoabrazo solitario, en la oscuridad lunar y la lluvia. «No contaban con mi astucia», se dijo, citando al Chapulín Colorado. Su reserva de frases absurdas era enorme.

Un detective mexicano era por definición un risueño accidente solitario.

A detective uncovers the rebellion. Isn't that what sin is? Same with murder - the cunning, ugly ordinary mutiny of it?

Miss Silver's fire. 'Of course

Pity,' said Costain. 'I've always wanted to be working on a case where the dots on a map formed a pattern.

to murder him?' Horton shrugged. 'How did Owen seem at Arina's funeral?