Detective Quotes

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin’s roofline a bursting fireball.

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.

It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

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

I only swing for one girl. But if she's into a certain kind of kink, who am I to deny her such pleasantries?"~ Luke Wagner

P.I. Cassie Cruise--You don't have to like her, but you damn well better respect her

It was quite elementary, ' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror, ' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Simon's brain tried to comprehend the situation. 'Was an international supermodel really holding Doc Gutson, leader of the infamous Bloodworth Gang, captive?

Ah ha!" the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. "The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

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

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to

That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.

So, what if your entire body was, oh I don’t know, dropped into molten met

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.

Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred years.

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?

A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples.

I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.

Becoming a fae leader? Not on my bucket list.

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned."Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...

I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

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

I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to bethese days, when I got this call. I could hear the rainbattering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative, 'he said as Molly came out in a fluster

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.

We don't know how our choices can change the course of our lives until they do. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes tragedy for us to realize it.

But there are three things in this world you can’t shrug off: death, taxes – and a girl who loves you.

This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Ah ha!' the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. ''The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.

The only reason I'd lift my skirt is to pull a pistol and plug you in the head.

I am somewhat exhausted