Quotes About Investigation

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

The Americans are always investigating one another, it was their national sport.

Quién es Samad?

Detective stories are right about one thing, though: once you've committed a crime, nothing is simple. The whole world bends to your exposure. Before you know it, you're on the eleven o'clock news, wearing a jacket on your head.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective

What this investigation reveals is that Pearly Poll, a minor and rather whimsical character in the modern re-telling of the Ripper story, might actually be the single most suspicious individual to emerge throughout the entire series of Whitechapel murders

If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

I want to find the murderer too. I don't like having my journeys interrupted by chloroform.

Phryne read a detective story, frequently going back because she suddenly found herself reading a conversation between two characters she had not met before—

Bert swore, trousered his gun, and found a stub of pencil which he licked, then used to write down the car's number on his far-from-white cuff.

I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.

You know how to tail people?" I asked. My mother shrugged and kept her mouth shut, but her devilish smile said everything.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

Naturally every investigator must document his findings as fully as possible, but he should also venture an occasional hypothesis even at the risk of making a mistake. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Another learning which cost me much to recognize, can be stated in four words. The facts are friendly. (...) Especially in our early investigations I can well remember the anxiety of waiting to see how the findings came out. Suppose our hypotheses were disproved! Suppose we were mistaken in our views! (...) I have perhaps been slow in coming to realize that the facts are always friendly. Every bit of evidence that one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so. One

He llegado a no verle a la vida más sentido que el de indagar su sentido, aun a sabiendas de que ninguna pista lleva a aclarar nada, fallando en la pesquisa una vez detrás de otra.

I'm a reference librarian. I have a master's degree in prying.

There's a period in every case when I feel really confused. It's usually from right after I'm hired until I find out who did it.

He was murdered in Hawaii.