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Quotes About Investigation

Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler. Pretty much any detective on the job loves a good puzzle.
~ Lisa Gardner
First order of business: downloading and installing the Pasco forensic tool from Foundstone.
~ Lisa Gardner
voice in this? For God's sake, Chase—" She caught the warning look in Chase's eye and stopped cold. This wasn't the time or place. He seemed to be silently warning her, telling her not to make a scene in front of the detective. "Baldwin was interested. That's all." "And so you met at the mill and then what?" Wilson asked. "We'd just left the office and were walking up the ramp to building
~ Lisa Jackson
Except Detective Reed did show up today. You
~ Lisa Jackson
His only lead was Ginny Slade, aka Virginia Watson Slade, and he'd have to track her down, but it wouldn't be easy. It would take time and money. Lots and lots of Danvers money.
~ Lisa Jackson
Today, he carefully stepped through McPherson's house, where a single half-drunk glass of wine and a plate of sliced cheese sat on the kitchen counter. The knife she'd used to cut the cheese had been left near the remains of a wedge. "Snack for one," he observed. "Maybe dinner." When he arched a brow, she said, "I'm a single woman. I recognize a meal when I see one." "If
~ Lisa Jackson
was critical to the investigation. "And we should
~ Lisa Jackson
the unsolved case of the two dead women found nearly a month apart, linked by the way their bodies had been left in the snow, was uppermost in her mind. The
~ Lisa Jackson
Olivia Bentz
~ Lisa Jackson
I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.
~ Lisa Lutz
Please, detective, you were saying.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Lou had to believe he'd find something on Winchester if he just took it methodical. Half a mil. Lou thought about knocking again, then lowered his arm and stood there like a stupid ass. Couldn't even decide whether to knock. Half of him wanted to know what was going on; the other half would just as soon let it lie. The neighbors had IDed
~ Lisa Scottoline
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
~ Lois Lowry
Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?
~ Lois Lowry
To state the obvious, each person is an individual with a unique personality, life experiences, inter relationships, and so on. Many paranormal investigators believe the individual takes these unique factors with them when they die. This means that each experience with a spirit is also unique because of what the deceased has retained after death. Likewise
~ Loren W. Christensen
There's mischief going on, and I insist upon knowing what it is.
~ Louisa May Alcott
By this point, the search for Doc Rockefeller had developed into a national obsession.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller's papers reveal that he and Standard Oil entered willingly into a staggering amount of corruption.
~ Ron Chernow
What set Tarbell apart from Rockefeller was her intellectual daring and fearless curiosity.
~ Ron Chernow
Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»
~ Rosa Montero
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
~ Rudyard Kipling
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
~ Rudyard Kipling
They had run out of words.... Then he and the Lamp were gone.... Ruse swallowed hard and then began counting bones again in the dark. Then when he reached the right elbow he stopped, and started counting suspects.
~ Ruth Downie
vault. The four bodies, one of them half-inside a
~ Ruth Rendell