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I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.
— Raymond Chandler
Steven stared at the detective's gun and realized there was no escape. He had an emotional meltdown, letting his true feelings spill out of him.
— Amelia Morgan
I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime
— Andrew Hixson
I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin
A three-pint problem
— Melvyn Small
The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.
— Elizabeth Heiter
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
— Robert Carlyle
'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.
— Cary Fukunaga
CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!
— Ron Sanders
You do know I'm not psychic, right?'Dash looked down at her. 'Joy...you do know that normal people don't see ghosts, right? — Amy Andrews
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
— Agatha Christie
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
— Agatha Christie
I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes
— Lauren Bradshaw
I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."-Detective Thanet. — Dorothy Simpson
With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it ... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
— Adria Arjona
If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell
— Freeman Wills Croft
This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.
— Sophie Kinsella
I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
— Eva Mendes
PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ... Beat that for a PC opening line ... not — Richard Stark
If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another.
— Robert G. DeMers
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
— James Ellroy
A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
— Raymond Chandler
Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)
— Candida Martinelli
I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet
— Debbie Cowens
I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
— John Buchan
Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.
— Ben Aaronovitch
Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see.
— Fuminori Nakamura
I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
— Jon Voight
I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
— Nic Pizzolatto
Tailing someone is like maintaining a relationship: you keep at it until they give you the slip, or until they confirm everything you suspect them of.
— Mark Crutchfield
Rene Caron takes my breath away!
— Teresa Lynn
Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.
— Agatha Christie
Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared.
— Keri Arthur
From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.
— A.A. Milne
A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
— John Wells
In detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.
— Amelia Gray
You have bigger balls than some men I know.
— Carolyn Arnold
Pigpen warned us that the detective fucked you up." Eli says.
— Katie McGarry
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
— Rex Stout
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
— Agatha Christie
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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About Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.
— Lily Gardner
I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.
— Jayne Ann Krentz
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
— Stieg Larsson
He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,every time. — Jodi Picoult
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
— David Lagercrantz
The only way Magick ever has power is when its secrets are truly secret. Once too many people know how it works, then it doesn't work anymore.
— Abramelin Keldor
The detective story is not about murder," P. D. James has written, "but the restoration of order.
— Anonymous
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
— Michael Connelly
What about Ding-Dong?""Detective Inspector Bell couldn't find his arse with both hands if you duct-taped them to it. Come on. — Stuart MacBride
Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin
And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade
— Dashiell Hammett
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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
— Ralph Davis
He said her name like a detective unmasking the face of the culprit he'd suspected all along.
— Allyse Near
Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.
— Nic Pizzolatto
I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
— Adria Arjona
Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself.
— Melia Keeton-Digby
The detective had a kidnapping, he had a knife and he had blood. He had an insane old man. He was going in.
— Darin Gibby
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
— Robert Winston
I didn't do anything," Scott protested. "Breaking and entering is nothing?" Detective Basso echoed. "Funny, the law disagrees.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.
— Emmett Shear
Mental note when dealing with Mitch: he was a police detective and he had ways of getting information therefore never let your guard down
— Kristen Ashley
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
— Sara Sheridan
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
— Karin Slaughter
Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific.
— George Orwell
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
— Carolyn Keene
I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.
— Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
