Quotes About Investigation

A groan burst from Poirot. "What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

M. Poirot, almost certainly the criminal; the only man on board who could create a psychological moment.

We're both very crime-minded. Read a lot about it.

La verità è che la maggior parte della gente, non esclusi i poliziotti, si fida troppo di questo mondo perverso. Crede troppo a quanto viene loro raccontato. Io no. Mi dispiace, ma io voglio sempre rendermi conto personalmente delle cose.

Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!

Is nobody incapable of murder?" "I have often wondered." said Hercule Poirot.

A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he'll commit another

What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like tour face, M. Ratchett, he said.

Ackroyd was sitting as I had left him in the armchair before the fire. His head had fallen sideways, and clearly visible, just below the collar of his coat, was a shining piece of twisted metalwork. Parker and I advanced till we stood over the recumbent figure. I heard the butler draw in his breath with a sharp hiss. "Stabbed from be'ind," he murmured. "'Orrible!

Already, at twenty-three minutes to one, Ratchett was dead—" "And it was his murderer speaking!" finished M. Bouc impressively. Poirot

Poirot. "You find out

It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent." -- Hercule Poirot

It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.

What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the truth!

Agatha Christie

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Can't you ever leave murder alone, woman? Even murder in retrospect?

there was a girl who discovered the body." "What did she do when she discovered it?" "Screamed." "Very nice too,

Detective stories are mostly bunkum... But they amuse people... And they're useful sometimes.

Agatha Christie

If Miss Debenham is innocent, why did she conceal that fact? Why did she tell me that she had never been in America?

The murderer is with us—on the train now….

A good way behind came Hercule Poirot. He trod softly like a cat.

In a case like this we have to take everything into account,' he said, noncommittally.