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I started hyperventilating. The detective was very nice, and said he would test again.
JANET LEE a drug deal gone bad.
JAMES YOUNG![]()
No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detect...
DOUGLAS ADAMS![]()
I am Detective Inspector Me. This is my partner, Detective Her."
The traffic warden frowned. "H...
DEREK LANDY I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
ALAIN RESNAIS![]()
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own...
PETER SHAFFER Detective Coffey expressed the opinion on the night of the murder, 'Blake's full of shit,'
GERALD SCHWARTZBACH![]()
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor...
AGATHA CHRISTIE When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any differenc...
DASHIELL HAMMETT![]()
There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed te...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH![]()
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pret...
MARK WAID ...This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule....
JAMES S.A. COREY![]()
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a re...
MARK HADDON We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.
JAMES SALLIS In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwich...
JAMES SALLIS![]()
Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upse...
STIEG LARSSON The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!
DONALD J. SOBOL Come to the jacaranda tree at seven o'clock and you will hear something to your advantage. Destroy t...
KERRY GREENWOOD![]()
Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and w...
A.A. MILNE Detective Leonard W. Briscoe
JERRY ORBACH![]()
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. JAMES It was a natural thing for him (Harley) to do what he did. It was a natural thing for the (detective...
LARRY CROWELL Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, po...
OTTO PENZLER I read a lot of detective novels.
CAITLIN KITTREDGE![]()
A really good detective never gets married.
RAYMOND CHANDLER![]()
Bat stood in the open door and said "I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police...
WARREN ELLIS They invaded his house, but they left his house. And they were trying to drive away from his house.
CATHERIN CURNS They weren't found inside his house. They were found two or three houses down with my car into a tre...
CATHERIN CURNS It's going to be hard. Just trying to deal -- still dealing with him not being here.
CATHERIN CURNS![]()
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a ...
JEFF FOXWORTHY![]()
In attempting to reach the genuine psychological reason for the popularity of detective stories, it ...
G.K. CHESTERTON We basically played detective for a whole day.
DEON SANTISTEVEN American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story...
CHESTER HIMES![]()
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you nee...
JOHN GREEN![]()
He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked hi...
JET LI![]()
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
G.K. CHESTERTON 'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.
CARY FUKUNAGA What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus ...
HUGO GERNSBACK Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, s...
BEATRICE LILLIE![]()
He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me "officer" or "detective." I let it go. If I r...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Would you like some more pancakes?" Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to...
MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT![]()
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a ve...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He called in and said he was feeling bad. The trainer (Larry Davis) thought it was best he stayed at...
BOB GEREN![]()
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're...
CORNELIA FUNKE Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70%...
NISIOISIN![]()
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and w...
RAYMOND CHANDLER![]()
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
RAYMOND CHANDLER It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their c...
LEE GOLDBERG In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game.
MICHAEL CHABON![]()
I’d leave that part to Detective Twinkle-Toes.
KATE SERINE Is he a plumber, a detective - who knows. It's so confusing.
JAMES DENTON![]()
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
V. S. PRITCHETT![]()
Pigpen warned us that the detective fucked you up." Eli says.
KATIE MCGARRY God did it. God and Detective Wise. I can't praise them enough.
KAY PIERCE It's like a treasure hunt, in a way, and you're a detective.
JEFF WARWICK![]()
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because ...
PATTI SMITH![]()
People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
ED MCBAIN![]()
In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) ...
W.H. AUDEN A three-pint problem
MELVYN SMALL I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very...
CARY FUKUNAGA I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
ERROL MORRIS![]()
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
JOHN BUCHAN![]()
You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
BOB MARLEY Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
GILES FODEN![]()
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a ...
DAVID MCCANDLESS My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a p...
FINN JONES![]()
While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensatio...
KATE SUMMERSCALE I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."
-Detective Thanet.
DOROTHY SIMPSON![]()
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
DOUGLAS ADAMS She went home, it was hurting, she was hoping it would get better. Then the pain got so bad she said...
DENNIS SCHEIB It just comes down to old-fashioned detective work. It's knocking on doors--asking questions.
RON PALEFSKY The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
NATSUO KIRINO![]()
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Around 11pm last night [Sunday night], three policemen visited my home.
ZHANG JIANKANG You really get to know these people. It almost becomes a detective story. Why is Brick like this?
KATIE SIMONS![]()
I don't think anybody realized until last Tuesday that this was a Klan-type outfit, a white supremac...
JAMES GRAY Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA![]()
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball ga...
REX STOUT![]()
Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.
DEAN KOONTZ He said the doctors had done all they could. I said, 'What do you mean, all they could?' I just coul...
JACKIE MARKRAY I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do...
DAVE LEGENO More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective...
MARK BILLINGHAM Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral con...
JOANNE DOBSON![]()
And they say
She's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
ED SHEERAN It is not for me to suspect but to detect.
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Not for the first time, Joyce lamented the lack of irony in conversations in Asia.
NURY VITTACHI I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored h...
ALAN BRADLEY To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if y...
RUPERT HART-DAVIS Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.
GOSHO AOYAMA![]()
I am all that there is of the most real.
AGATHA CHRISTIE![]()
The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist...
DASHIELL HAMMETT There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some...
JED RUBENFELD![]()
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER We rode out the storm in a shelter and when we came out our home and place where we worked was compl...
ROBERT WEST My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was...
ADRIA ARJONA
JANET LEE a drug deal gone bad.
JAMES YOUNG
No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detect... DOUGLAS ADAMS
I am Detective Inspector Me. This is my partner, Detective Her."The traffic warden frowned. "H...
DEREK LANDY I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
ALAIN RESNAIS
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own... PETER SHAFFER Detective Coffey expressed the opinion on the night of the murder, 'Blake's full of shit,'
GERALD SCHWARTZBACH
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor... AGATHA CHRISTIE When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any differenc...
DASHIELL HAMMETT
There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed te... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pret... MARK WAID ...This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule....
JAMES S.A. COREY
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a re... MARK HADDON We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.
JAMES SALLIS In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwich...
JAMES SALLIS
Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upse... STIEG LARSSON The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!
DONALD J. SOBOL Come to the jacaranda tree at seven o'clock and you will hear something to your advantage. Destroy t...
KERRY GREENWOOD
Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and w... A.A. MILNE Detective Leonard W. Briscoe
JERRY ORBACH
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. P. D. JAMES It was a natural thing for him (Harley) to do what he did. It was a natural thing for the (detective...
LARRY CROWELL Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, po...
OTTO PENZLER I read a lot of detective novels.
CAITLIN KITTREDGE
A really good detective never gets married. RAYMOND CHANDLER
Bat stood in the open door and said "I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police... WARREN ELLIS They invaded his house, but they left his house. And they were trying to drive away from his house.
CATHERIN CURNS They weren't found inside his house. They were found two or three houses down with my car into a tre...
CATHERIN CURNS It's going to be hard. Just trying to deal -- still dealing with him not being here.
CATHERIN CURNS
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a ... JEFF FOXWORTHY
In attempting to reach the genuine psychological reason for the popularity of detective stories, it ... G.K. CHESTERTON We basically played detective for a whole day.
DEON SANTISTEVEN American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story...
CHESTER HIMES
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you nee... JOHN GREEN
He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked hi... JET LI
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. CHESTERTON 'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.
CARY FUKUNAGA What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus ...
HUGO GERNSBACK Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, s...
BEATRICE LILLIE
He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me "officer" or "detective." I let it go. If I r... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Would you like some more pancakes?" Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to...
MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a ve... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He called in and said he was feeling bad. The trainer (Larry Davis) thought it was best he stayed at...
BOB GEREN
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're... CORNELIA FUNKE Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70%...
NISIOISIN
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and w... RAYMOND CHANDLER
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. RAYMOND CHANDLER It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their c...
LEE GOLDBERG In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game.
MICHAEL CHABON
I’d leave that part to Detective Twinkle-Toes. KATE SERINE Is he a plumber, a detective - who knows. It's so confusing.
JAMES DENTON
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. V. S. PRITCHETT
Pigpen warned us that the detective fucked you up." Eli says. KATIE MCGARRY God did it. God and Detective Wise. I can't praise them enough.
KAY PIERCE It's like a treasure hunt, in a way, and you're a detective.
JEFF WARWICK
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because ... PATTI SMITH
People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
ED MCBAIN
In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) ... W.H. AUDEN A three-pint problem
MELVYN SMALL I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very...
CARY FUKUNAGA I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
ERROL MORRIS
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. JOHN BUCHAN
You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. BOB MARLEY Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
GILES FODEN
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ARTHUR C. CLARKE What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a ...
DAVID MCCANDLESS My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a p...
FINN JONES
While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensatio...
KATE SUMMERSCALE I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."
-Detective Thanet.
DOROTHY SIMPSON
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. DOUGLAS ADAMS She went home, it was hurting, she was hoping it would get better. Then the pain got so bad she said...
DENNIS SCHEIB It just comes down to old-fashioned detective work. It's knocking on doors--asking questions.
RON PALEFSKY The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
NATSUO KIRINO
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam... ROGER STONE I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Around 11pm last night [Sunday night], three policemen visited my home.
ZHANG JIANKANG You really get to know these people. It almost becomes a detective story. Why is Brick like this?
KATIE SIMONS
I don't think anybody realized until last Tuesday that this was a Klan-type outfit, a white supremac... JAMES GRAY Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball ga... REX STOUT
Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. DEAN KOONTZ He said the doctors had done all they could. I said, 'What do you mean, all they could?' I just coul...
JACKIE MARKRAY I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do...
DAVE LEGENO More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective...
MARK BILLINGHAM Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral con...
JOANNE DOBSON
And they sayShe's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
ED SHEERAN It is not for me to suspect but to detect.
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Not for the first time, Joyce lamented the lack of irony in conversations in Asia.
NURY VITTACHI I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored h...
ALAN BRADLEY To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if y...
RUPERT HART-DAVIS Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.
GOSHO AOYAMA
I am all that there is of the most real. AGATHA CHRISTIE
The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter. AGATHA CHRISTIE Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist...
DASHIELL HAMMETT There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some...
JED RUBENFELD
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ... RAYMOND CHANDLER We rode out the storm in a shelter and when we came out our home and place where we worked was compl...
ROBERT WEST My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was...
ADRIA ARJONA
