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I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.


Lee Grant


#detective #detective story #did #fell #film

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.


Jeff Foxworthy


#because #brings #cop #detective #home

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.


Rex Stout


#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories

Terrible accident; body parts was everywhere—-fingers, toes, wings, beaks. Ambulance people tried to scoop him all up, but apparently it ain’t so easy as you might think—telling a chicken from a Chinaman, I mean. Anyways, they got his weight off his driver’s license, picked up a hundred and thirty pounds of pieces and buried ‘em. Now his wife come every year 'bout this time to pay her respects. We don't serve chicken while she's here. Hope you ain't got a taste for it.


R.J. Leahy


#fat-chance #humor #mystery #respect

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.


Robert Mueller


#case #cold #columbia #department #detectives

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.


David Oyelowo


#another #bbc #born #days #detective

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


#certainly #come #detective #detective story #does

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.


Peter Shaffer


#detective story #did #first #i #my own

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


#budding #detective #detective story #even #form

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.


Steig Larsson


#classical #detective #detective stories #entertainment #light






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