Quotes About Investigation

Because like it or not, both of them have died in unusual circumstances almost within twenty-four hours of one another, Mrs Taylor. And Long Way Hole seems to be the one thing that connects them.

Atticus Pünd had often said that there were no coincidences when you were investigating a crime. 'Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.

The word is murder.

But I'm not going to play fucking University Challenge with you now or at any time. I've got a dead woman and somebody strangled her in her own front room and that's all that matters to me right at this moment.

He was someone who was only fully alive when he was working on a case. He needed there to have been a murder or some other violent crime. It was his entire raison d'être – another posh phrase which I am sure he would have hated.

and after arriving in England, he had set himself up as a private detective, helping the police on numerous occasions. He

You're joking. Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

The 'River Monsters' episodes acted a bit like a whodunit - there was a crime scene, maybe someone had been pulled under, and we had to find out what happened.

We like to joke that India has sick companies but rich promoters. Yet, even after the bad loans and non-payment of dues have turned at least three banks sick, there is no public demand for investigation, accountability and punishment.

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.

I don't normally do pure historical work.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.