Quotes About Investigation

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After marriage, everyone turns into great detectives.

Do not repeat things without examining them yourself, even if it is a beautiful idiom.

Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were survivors, if you wanted to call being reduced to catatonia and raving lunacy 'surviving'.

Although solving murders and matchmaking ought to be as different as night and day, the thump of excitement in her heart was the same.

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

to define what is rational solely by whether it fits the tenets of your own worldview is an invalid move because it rules out all other truth claims by definition. You do not even have to investigate the evidence. A serious search for truth does not start by stacking the deck.

It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs that made her sleep, sleep through an investigation that did not include her sons, sleep through the quiet departure of her older boy to another town, another college, and sleep through the funeral and burial of a beautiful girl who'd had a name, who'd had a family, who'd had a life.

I wouldn't think it was an easy thing to stab someone in the chest. There are the ribs to get through, and one of the roles they play is to stop damage to vital organs beneath. Her killer had known what they were doing.

thought of this introductory part of the interrogation as the Manilov-Chichikov routine, after the characters in Gogol's Dead Souls who dawdled at great length at the door, each trying to let the other enter first. But whereas in Gogol's novel the two men eventually went through the door together, I never permitted myself to violate the etiquette of the investigation.

The lid on the first case of spot-fixing in Twenty20 cricket had been blown. On

Neil Sheehan

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?

It was singular. It was damned odd. He must have touched a letter under her pillow because when he straightened up

What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions.

I do not imagine; detectives aren't allowed to imagine. They note probabilities. I

Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever.

little inquisitorial committee of hens.

The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:

God, they don't call you Sherlock for nothing, do they?

Only the curious have something to find.

She would watch and learn. Find out why Paulinus was taking such an interest in her, the king's niece, why he seemed to want to persuade her of his god.

Acaso no conoces sucesos que te conciernen, pero de los que no fuiste testigo? ¿No te encuentras, a veces, contándolos? Hay muchas cosas que recordamos que nunca hemos visto con nuestros propios ojos ni vivido con nuestros propios cuerpos. Es una simple cuestión de encajar lo que sabemos, lo que nos han contado y lo que imaginamos. No es muy diferente a cómo un investigador reúne las respuestas a un crimen.