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The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
Seriously," the banker went on, "what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies."
"Murder.
The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
A mystery is solved with a story. The story starts with a clue, but the trouble is that you usually have no idea what the clue is, even if you think you know.
To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."
[From a letter to George Lyttelton]
You dig in and you find something.
Solving crimes is like following a spider web. Everything is connected in some way. It's just figuring out where things intersect so I can find the spider in the middle.
He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,
every time.
Be like a detective. See what's going on around you.
Eli Hofstadter, Private Detective and Investigative services. I find
As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.
An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe,until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind.
There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.
The search is in the doing.
... whenever you were in a fix or at a crossroads in an investigation, there were always two choices: to do nothing and worry, or to take some sort of action and deal with its associated risks.
Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.
The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.
He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,br>every time.
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.
Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one.
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.
Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.
But how could you guess what the motive was?
Everyone is doing forensics.
Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.
Our investigation is ongoing," he said.
"Do you know something you're not telling me?"
"Yes."
"Right. Well, at least someone knows something. That's a nice bloody change.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.
Spying is waiting.
The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'
There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
A life without investigation is not worth living
I realized a long time ago not to worry about whodunnit; the more answers you find, the more questions they'll keep raising.
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.
suspected in the
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.
Crime is a career, whether you are a practitioner or an investigator, and it requires intuition and patience.
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.
Creating red herrings
The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.
The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars.
I don't know yet what we're called, or if we have
a name. I know so little and need to learn so much. I'm many things, detective, and all of them love you.
Coincidences were causes for investigation.
Literary critics make natural detectives.
I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE
We Who Solve Mystery, Become Mystery
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
Deer in headlights.
Cornered suspect.
Mouse in the open, owls circling.
I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.
Mystery hovers over all things here below.
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
I needed a new mystery.
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Know what I like about mysteries? They're mysterious.
After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
Now comes the mystery.
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.
I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy
er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.
You look for one thing and you find another.
There's two ways to deal with mystery: uncover it, or eliminate it.
You have a case, Holmes?" I remarked. "The faculty of deduction is certainly contagious, Watson," he answered. "It has enabled you to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more.
No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.
Guarded curiosity.
Detective stories are mostly bunkum ... But they amuse people ... And they're useful sometimes.
I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.
That was still my meat - the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why so many people are interested in crime and its solution.
The less we know the more we suspect
Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
the whole mystery
You know you really don't need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this.
The real thing--Scotland Yard? Or Sherlock Holmes?
Be suspicious of the litigious.
In detective stories ... I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but ... there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.
All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search for the veil instead.
It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered; an event which is, for some reason, treated as a sort of calamity.
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective,
Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.
It go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
WIZARD
Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations.
Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.
No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.