Agatha Christie Quotes

I think like a detective.

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

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.

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

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

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

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.

I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

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.'

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand how the mystery ultimately will be solved.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.