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Quotes About Investigation

RULE 4. FIND OUT WHAT THE AUTHOR'S PROBLEMS WERE.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in many ways defines the spy genre; it introduces the grand theme of ferreting out the Russian agent high up in British intelligence.
~ Nancy Pearl
One of you is obviously lying. How on earth do I figure out which one? You both have something to gain.
~ Nancy Warren
O hábito não faz o monge,mas o crime ou a sua presunção fazem o detetive,sobretudo o amador.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
After months of investigation, all the detective was able to recover was a broken wristwatch and the name of the man who had killed my father in the moat of Montjuïc Castle. His name was Fumero, Javier Fumero.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
az ön édesapja példás özvegységében az Å'si szüzesség oly állapotába tért vissza, ami erÅ'sen foglalkoztatja a tudományos közvéleményt, és még az érsekség is aktát nyitott róla a mihamarabbi boldoggá avatásához.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Alicia says that every crime is like an onion: you have to cut through lots of layers to find out what's hidden inside, and on the way you must shed a few tears.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Todo crimen es como una cebolla: hay que cortar a través de muchas capas para ver qué esconde y por el camino hay que derramar unas cuantas lágrimas.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask—the fish?
~ Carol Ellis
I feel kind of bad for him," I said. "All he wants is to be left alone. I wish we could help him somehow." I sighed. "But we do have to check out his story." "I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask--the fish?
~ Carol Ellis
We must be missing something," I said when the van arrived back at the lodge late that afternoon. "We're missing suspects.
~ Carol Ellis
Maybe Animal Magnetism is an animal talent agency. Wally the polar bear could be one of their animal actors." "Right! So…" I frowned. "What does it mean?" Ashley sighed. "I still don't have a clue!" Just then, Dana Hartwick walked past our table. She hurried toward the front door. Ashley and I jumped up and followed her. Solve the case first, I thought. Eat later!
~ Carol Ellis
The night the day of our find, Dr. Pitt and the stone tablet disappeared!
~ Carolyn Keene
When Miss Carter came back to the table she reported that laboratory tests had shown that the "sleepy" kitten had indeed been drugged.
~ Carolyn Keene
I still think Barty must be a crook
~ Carolyn Keene
What's in your backpack, Bess?" Nancy Drew asked
~ Carolyn Keene
She touched her forehead with the back of her
~ Carolyn Keene
Mr. Clyde Mead
~ Carolyn Keene
George's eyes lit up as she considered that there might be a mystery to solve.
~ Carolyn Keene
Suddenly she saw a man who was snapping her picture. She stared at him and realized that he was short, had black hair, a hard face, and was wearing a gray suit. He looked to be of Italian descent. Could he possibly be Benny the Slippery One Caputti?
~ Carolyn Keene
On a hunch she asked whose signature Claude Aubert had forged. The group was astounded to learn it was that of Charles Leblanc! The "frightened financier"!
~ Carolyn Keene
As Nancy started back to the driveway she caught sight of a small leather-covered book lying a few feet from the doghouse. Eagerly Nancy snatched it up.
~ Carolyn Keene
Lefèvre! I'll bet they're one and the
~ Carolyn Keene
The young sleuth smiled to herself. "I wish that phantom boat would appear! I'd like to know what it looks like.
~ Carolyn Keene