Best Detective Work Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the end, one detail is unarguable: There will always be those searching for treasure. Never forget: We are a country founded on legends and myths. We love them, especially legends of treasure. Looking for treasure isn't just part of being an American, it is America.”

Source: History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

“There’s no understanding the power of a mother, of Zana in particular, because she was the only one who didn’t swallow the story of the English bank. When a son’s fate is at stake, no detective in the world can find more clues than a mother.”

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Book:Two Brothers

Source: Two Brothers

“An alibi is only as good as its details.”

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Book:Paladine

Source: Paladine

“Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.”

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Book:The Fifth Woman

Source: The Fifth Woman

“You lie and I’ll figure out the truth.”

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Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“Then how did you catch me, Will?" "You had Disadvantages." "What Disadvantages?" "Passion. And You're insane.”

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Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“I don’t see anything,” Miller said. “What’s it look like?” “The eye of an angry God?” Elvi said. "Oh,” Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. “Yeah, well that’s probably it, then. Good work.”

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Book:Cibola Burn

Source: Cibola Burn

“In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry, but no detective could have had a more unsuspecting victim.”

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Book:Have His Carcase

Source: Have His Carcase

“Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.”

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Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.”

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Author:Michael Connelly

“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.”

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Author:James Ponsoldt

“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”

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Book:Death on the Nile

Source: Death on the Nile

“Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!”

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Book:Nancy Drew 03: The Bungalow Mystery

Source: Nancy Drew 03: The Bungalow Mystery

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

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Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.”

Source: Ripper

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