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Quotes About Clue

She must be found for all that," said he, "and shall, if I have to send out Q." "Q?" "An agent of mine who is a living interrogation point; so we call him Q, which is short for query.
~ Anna Katharine Green
We've got to get these guys to Bubba's. Anyone got a clue how to do it? (Nick) They gotta be breathing? (Simi) Yes. (Nick and Caleb) Well, pooh. That just takes all the fun out of it. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I assumed he'd kill me, not my people. (Stryker) The man's name is War. Did that not clue you in about his personality? This would be tantamount to meeting Peone and expecting the goddess of retaliation to forgive you and blithely walk away to let you live a happy life. (Zephyra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
One has to understand the dynamics of the species and habitat in question, and most armchair ethicists haven't the faintest clue.
~ John Durant
She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
~ John Green
A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If you're not sure when to run, it's a sure bet that when I show up, that's your sign.
~ Aurora
Oog aim vack
~ Garth Nix
'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.
~ David Hepworth
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
~ M. J. Rose
I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.
~ Shaun Livingston
I'd met him about five years back on the Case of the Kleptomaniacal Occultist
~ Sara Gran
No doubt Gervase Fen or Peter Wimsey would immediately have grasped the vital clue revealing the identity of the murderer. But to me it looked like wreckage.
~ Sara Paretsky
Detective Quinlan, I think I know who killed my sister." ... "That's interesting. I was just coming back here to tell you the same thing... Emma.
~ Sara Shepard
It's impossible, Amy muttered. The lead? Nellie said, a baffled look spreading across her face. You havn't even heard it yet. The whole clue hunt, Dan corrected. It's useless. We can't win. Not the way we're supposed to. Why'd we even bother coming here?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Death, he thought. This whole clue hunt's been about death.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
The note only held two words:
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
no estoy en policiales —dijo Santiago—.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Ah; they never do that here. I have heard that there is a library, but the clue to it has been lost, and nobody now knows the way. I don't believe in libraries. Nobody ever goes into a library to read, any more than you would into a larder to eat. But there is this difference; — the food you consume does come out of the larders, but the books you read never come out of the libraries.
~ Anthony Trollope
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
This case deserves to be a classic.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and authoritative tap.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Singularity is almost invariably a clue.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle