Quotes About Sleuth

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally.

James Patterson

James Patterson

diminutive Mr. B was a private eye. The

You're a nosy sleuth like me because you can't help it, " Alma said.

I read a lot of detective novels.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER P.I.P.

Lawrence Sanders

uh-oh, Ranger said. you been reading those Nancy Drew books again?

'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand

He was really only a sort of detective, a species

I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand

it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require

Her name is Maud Silver. Louisa says she has solved many difficult cases besides being an extremely expert knitter.

David Baldacci

David Baldacci

We mothers have to be part sleuth, I realized.

Ross Macdonald

History isn't only a subject; it's also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves. I've pressed their words between these pages, like flowers, for their beauty, or like insects, for their hideousness. The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.

No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. That ruled out the Dudley Do-Right approach to finding the killer.