Quotes About Clues

These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve

The world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (The Sign of the Four, page 111)

I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace. Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere.

No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.

When I first became a detective I had tried solving crimes the way mystery writers do: coming up with the solution to the crime first, then working back to the point where you don't know what the hell is going on. But for some reason every time I tried that I ended up locked in a closet.

Find the bodies if you can.

I have also paid some attention to what language can tell us. Messages perish as they are uttered, but language itself is remarkably durable. Sometimes it preserves useful clues to a more abstract and thought-oriented part of the human past than material artifacts do.

È conoscendo meglio la vittima che in genere si scopre l'assassino.

Maigret never took notes. If he had a propelling pencil in his hand and a paper in front of him, it was only to make doodles that had no connection with the case.

There is a corpse somewhere on the road to town. Mr Fox does not wish it there. Remove it!

spy with my little eye something made of gold: So follow the clues both night and day; leave no stone unturned, the game's in play. "'Leave no stone unturned?

I love Hitchcock's films because even though you knew who did it right at the beginning, he still kept the audience engaged till the last frame.

think you are wrong in saying we ought to follow the methods of Sherlock Holmes. We ought rather to follow Dupin, Poe's detective, the man who preceded Sherlock Holmes.

In my more lucid moments I realized that insanity was a fairly reasonable explanation for what was happening to me. The problem was that it wasn't useful information. Realizing I was crazy didn't make the crazy stuff stop happening. Nor did it give me any clues about what I should do next.

el crimen hablaba por sí solo.

Stop what you're doing and observe your children! Lovie wanted to say to the young mother. Quick, set aside your chores and turn your head. See how they laugh with such abandon? Only the very young can laugh like that. Look how they are giving you clues to who they are.

den, and I was walking down the street with

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

than theories, after all. My view of the case is confirmed. There is a trapdoor communicating with the roof, and