Quotes About Investigation

The young sleuth smiled. Although she was glad it was all over, she could not help but look forward to another mystery to solve.

The following morning Nancy spent two hours at the library examining old atlases and historic records. Although the librarian permitted her access to some old and precious maps, she could find no chart which bore any resemblance to the scrap in her possession.

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Nancy zipped across the street and into a photocopy shop. "Hi. I want you to blow something up," she said to the clerk. "This is a copy shop, not a terrorist headquarters," said the young man behind the counter. Then he laughed with his entire thin body. "I never get tired of that joke," he said.

The young detective went on alone to the antique shop. It was an inconspicuous place on a busy street. A bell jingled as she entered.

The lawyer nodded. "My client, Mr. Billington, was arrested for bringing explosive Hamlin oranges into the Space Center.

Mr. Drew and his wife

There was no question now but that her father had been drugged, then kidnaped!

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.

In detective work you thought in much the same way as you would pick your way across a swamp, testing for firm ground each time you took a step forward.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

One night, Tim stumbled across a documentary called Manufacturing Consent. After viewing it, he found some writing online by its subject, Noam Chomsky, and as a result began to feel that there wasn't really a point to anything, that free will was an illusion, and that the things most people invested time and energy in were systems of control designed by those who sought to manipulate the general populace

Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.

Sabía que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia.

We'd walked over to my car while Torrance talked, and I'd pulled out my keys. Now I stopped with my fingers on the car door handle. "Dug up the backyard?" I echoed incredulously. Come to think of it, that wasn't so surprising. I thought about it for a moment. Okay, something that could be kept in a hole in the ground as well as hidden in a house.

Honey, we have other things to think about," I said, forcing myself to smile, forcing myself to sound calm. One corner of my brain pictured a pink ambulance screeching to a halt outside to disgorge emergency beauticians with cases of scissors, combs, and hair spray. "Dealing with a little hair damage can wait until tomorrow. It's a lot more important to find out who did this and why.

Had I been allowed to testify, I would have told them that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the bullet that killed President Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area. I would have also informed the Warren Commission about the call I received from Lyndon Johnson while we were operating on Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson told me that a man in the operating room would get a deathbed confession from Oswald.

University.   J. Gary Shaw is a retired architect and a forty-five-plus-year researcher/critic of the JFK assassination investigation and conclusions. He is a former director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas and the Assassination Archives and Research

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.