Quotes About Sleuth

The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!

There lived ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown

Donald J. Sobol

Jessica Fletcher

author Agatha Christie was knowledgeable

Angeles in the plain-clothes division

Robert Goldsborough

Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler. Pretty much any detective on the job loves a good puzzle.

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.

Anthony Horowitz

and after arriving in England, he had set himself up as a private detective, helping the police on numerous occasions. He

You're joking. Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander

Franklin W. Dixon

Franklin W. Dixon

mystery to solve.

I needed to know more. Call it my detective's instinct. (Not for nothing has Abby nicknamed me Agatha Kristy!)

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.