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Detective Fiction Quotes & Sayings

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I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning. — Raymond Chandler

I couldn't stop staring.
"Sweetheart," he said, "is my slip showing or something? — Shelly Reuben

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

All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search for the veil instead. — Arkopaul Das

A three-pint problem — Melvyn Small

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified. — Stephanie Osborn

When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Digital Age Cozy: Cozy mystery can be more than knitting grannies, cats, and cookbooks! — A.E.H. Veenman

If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you're probably in the wrong lane. — ARKOPAUL

Al Hickey: It's not about anything.
Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand — Phillip Rock

I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes — Lauren Bradshaw

When you live outside the law, you have to be flexible — Tom Cook

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. — Giles Foden

If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another. — Robert G. DeMers

I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry. — Warren Ellis

We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it. — Robert Magarian

Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge. — B.V. Lawson

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn

Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories. — Elizabeth Savage

Even if you don't like Poe - he invented the detective story. And science fiction. In essence, he invented a huge part of the twentieth century. — Donna Tartt

Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro

He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight. — B.V. Lawson

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years. — Martin Cruz Smith

Faith doesn't move mountains, Detective. It just obscures the view. — Corey Redekop

I'm Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I've been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince ... — A.F. Stewart

Forgive me if I am not filled with enthusiasm for the new golden age," he said. — Alex Lamb

She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband. — Helen Smith

Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that. — Ed Lynskey

That was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity. — Lily Gardner

People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right. — Sara Sheridan

Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign. — B.V. Lawson

Now take it easy. This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?"
I felt it. I took it easy. — Ross Macdonald

She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray — Shelley Gray

Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came ... nobody cares. It's still not about anything.
Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me. — Phillip Rock

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

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

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball. — Ed Lynskey

Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park — Jill Yesko

[ ... ] a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone. — Warren Ellis