Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.
In detective stories. . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but. . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].
Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.