Quotes About Clue

But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.

think we're almost there," she said. "Think yellow," she added with an exaggerated wink. The boys let

Maybe if he read enough novels about the problems of fictional people, he might find some clue about how to solve his own.

I had somehow jointed a completely unexpected and unknown company, presumably of people Rita had carelessly left lying around where they had been easily lost, and she had given me no clue how I had managed to get a seat with that group or even who they were.

I thought about getting out and looking for some kind of clue, until I realized how silly that was. Did I think I was Tonto, faithful Indian guide? I couldn't look at a bent twig and tell how many white men had been past in the last hour.

She smiled and took her hand away. "Good," she said. "So, um, have you found anything that's, you know. Something that might help?

Vince shook it playfully. "Maybe it'll help Anderson figure out who the victim is this time," he said. I opened my mouth to say that it didn't seem likely, that Anderson wouldn't figure it out if he had notarized statements from the killer and the victim, and then I closed my mouth and took a step back and didn't say anything at all.

Once again, I had the sensation that everyone else was working off a fully rehearsed script, and I was being asked to improvise. "I just meant—nothing," I said, hoping for a clue on what my line was supposed to be.

from a shoe print

Anna Katharine Green

I'll bet you can't tell me who designed the garden. I'll give you a clue: it's later than the house.' 'I've only ever heard of one landscape gardener,' said Harry, still staring at the house. 'Capability Brown.' 'That's exactly why we chose him,' said Giles, 'simply so that my friends would have heard of the fellow two hundred years later.' Harry

Adam took one hand off the handlebars and fingered the envelope in his inside pocket like a schoolboy the day before his birthday feeling the shape of a present in the hope of discovering some clue as to its contents. He felt certain that whatever it contained would not be to anyone's advantage now his father was dead, but it did not lessen his curiosity.

Sometimes stories are just previews of coming truths.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

Mrs. Grace Cahill….

Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and religion and psychotic horror strewn about like a bunch of hats. Also, there is a social or sociological drift--rather than toward the hard sciences, the overall impression is childish but interesting.

It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

It was nothing, really; just a straw in the wind! But a straw in the wind shows which way the wind is blowing

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.

Then this, Grimm said, is what I believe professional inquisitors refer to as a clue. In my considered judgment as an occasional inquisitor for the Spirearch, Benedict said, I believe you may be correct.

He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken, every time.

a tip-off about the whereabouts

If he had any kind of a clue, he wouldn't be caught dead with that stuff. See what I did there? Caught dead? I crack myself up." Eve sipped more coffee she probably, at this point, didn't need.