Quotes About Clues

Leaphorn sat on a slab of sandstone and considered what these tracks told him. It wasn't much. He could guess that the killing hadn't been premeditated — at least not completely. One who plans to carry a body a long distance uphill over rough ground does not wear moccasins if he has any respect for his feet.

Captain,' he said. Largo looked up. 'Johnson had trouble with that lost fifty minutes at the airplane. Do you?' 'I don't think so,' Largo said. His expression was totally neutral. 'I know something Johnson doesn't.' He held up the folder. 'I know how slow you work.

Breakable codes and findable clues. Everything had been done on purpose.

Pike, Icicle, Flame, Onyx … if it wasn't one of them, who could it be?

Disappeared. Obviously killed. International experts came and unearthed most of the story.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works.

disappearing faster than weekend houseguests in an Agatha Christie story.

Some of the bank people were so young they'd never seen a business proposal suggesting manufacturing things in the state of Massachusetts. They thought they'd unearthed some ancient shaman, full of clues to a forgotten world.

Policemen seem to worry about unexplained bodies. It upsets their sense of neatness.

Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslapt? ir kamuojasi d?l jos taip niekada ir nepriart?dami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.

Do you suppose it all means something? That we're being left clues? Perhaps. Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.

Have you discovered aught of my erstwhile murderer?

My theory, currently, is that this is someone who has known something all along whilst remaining in the shadows. Someone who knows what happened to Tallulah and Zach.

Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.

Ross Macdonald

Nadine placed one map on top of the other and held them to the dining room light. The points were a near-perfect match. The map of Sarasota, Desoto and Manatee Counties was larger than the one of Marion, Volusia and Lake, but her mind made the readjustment. She finally understood why the unsub used Myakka and why he dropped the bodies in Phillippi Creek: because the kill and dump sites now aligned perfectly with her mother's.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

You know it doesn't work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

The way they leave tells you everything.

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.