Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

There's no police like Holmes.

You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.