Quotes About Clues

Today valueless Clues are meant for future use.

What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?

I do not imagine; detectives aren't allowed to imagine. They note probabilities. I

God, they don't call you Sherlock for nothing, do they?

From the beginning, our lives lay down clues to selfhood and vocation, though the clues may be hard to decode. But trying to interpret them is profoundly worthwhile—especially when we are in our twenties or thirties or forties, feeling profoundly lost, having wandered, or been dragged, far away from our birthright gifts.

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And

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

the question falls within the penumbra of the detective's expertise.