Top Detective Quotes
A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. Sayers
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
Hugo Gernsback
David Herbert Donald 
Jeffery Deaver 
Agatha Christie 
Laurell K. Hamilton 
Raymond Chandler 
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer 
60% of people like this quote
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. Sayers
60% of people like this quote
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
58% of people like this quote
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
Hugo Gernsback
57% of people like this quote
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Alain Resnais
57% of people like this quote
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Peter Shaffer
56% of people like this quote
The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.
Charlotte Ross
55% of people like this quote
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Jeffery Deaver
54% of people like this quote
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
54% of people like this quote
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