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#detective

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I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.


John Thaw


#being #description #detective #good #him

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#characteristics #detection #detectives #facts #obviousness

Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant.


Robert B. Parker


#humor #religon #spenser #humor

I’m trying to figure the rules. This isn’t yin and yang, it’s more like yin and yank. The past few days I’ve been going, OK, she doesn’t mix the... romance so well with the single-mindedness of the police work. So it gets me wondering, Is the solution for me to give up our working relationship? Stop my magazine research so we can-?” Nikki grabbed him into a deep kiss. Then she pulled away and said, “Will you shut up?


Richard Castle


#humor #romance #humor

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.


Robert B. Parker


#detectives #guns #humor #irony #machos

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#criminals #detectives #intellect #london #sherlock-holmes

Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.


Nenia Campbell


#funny-and-random #humor #funny

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.


Robert B. Parker


#humor #spenser #humor

Of all the ways to murder someone, slowly, over the course of about 75 years or so, is the best way to not get caught. Nobody, not even Sherlock Holmes, would suspect a thing.


Jarod Kintz


#detective #murder #sherlock-holmes #suspicion #death

You have bigger balls than some men I know.


Carolyn Arnold


#justified #madison-knight #men






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