Quotes About Sleuths

#1. Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.

Edan Lepucki

#2. It's a fine murdering day, (sang Bunch) And as balmy as May And the sleuths from the village are gone." A rattle of crockery being dumped in the sink drowned the next lines, but as the Rev. Julian Harmon left the house, he heard the final triumphant assertion: "And we'll all go a'murdering today!

Agatha Christie

#3. You're not one of those despicable literary sleuths who think he can deduce every last little sordid biographical detail from a writer's work, are you?

Jonathan Galassi

#4. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them

Renita D'Silva

#5. Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.

Marcia Muller

#6. You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#7. Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he'd never heard of Adolf Hitler.

Jane Sunday

#8. Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:
"You love to figure out things as much as I do," Piper said.
"Like what?" Bill asked.
"You fix broken stuff," Piper replied.
"Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.

Ed Lynskey

#9. The busy snoops like us can leave no stone unturned, Alma said.

Ed Lynskey

#10. Alma didn't want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn't shush until sundown.
"I've found the missing lady," Alma said. "Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.

Ed Lynskey

#11. She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she'd left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.

Ed Lynskey

#12. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

Noorilhuda

#13. He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Noorilhuda

#14. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
A grave matter has just arisen." Etta hadn't intended to make the pun. She went on. "It's a problem right up your alley.

Ed Lynskey

#15. Even in death, her mother was winning.

Noorilhuda

#16. Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark to hit up. He scratched his front claws to re-attack the sand.

Ed Lynskey

#17. When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn

Carolyn Keene

#18. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
The June afternoon had clear, blue skies - ideal weather for birdwatching.

Ed Lynskey

#19. Within the same hour as the murder took place, Isabel Trumbo sat in her armchair dozing, the Alaskan Outdoor magazine on her lap. Her kid sister Alma fidgeted in the other armchair, from time to time picking up her newspaper folded over to the day's crossword puzzle.

Ed Lynskey

#20. You're a nosy sleuth like me because you can't help it, Alma said.

Ed Lynskey

#21. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda

#22. You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Debbi Mack

#23. When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles."

quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery

Sharon Love Cook

#24. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Mac Barnett

#25. Hope turned sly. "What if the slice of apple pie is served a la mode?"

Smiling, Peggy Sue regarded her tall, brunette, and blue-eyed friend. "Is the slice of apple pie served a la mode with three scoops of homemade vanilla ice cream piled on top of it?

Lyn Key

#26. I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit
not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#27. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
I know what." Isabel reached under the end table, took out the game board, and rattled the Band-Aid box containing the letter tiles. "It's been a week-and-a-half since our last Scrabble game.

Ed Lynskey

#28. Isabel frowned. "Alma Trumbo, you did not just dig up a human bone from our flowerbed. It's got to be a dinosaur bone, dinky or not."
"A dinosaur bone, eh?" The short, stout Alma gave her tall, slim sister the old up and down. "What then, are we the Flintstones living in Bedrock?

Ed Lynskey

#29. February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

Judy Nedry

#30. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda

#31. If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

Noorilhuda

#32. Quote taken from Chapter 1
Bill hung up, grumbling to nobody in particular. Emily was about the only caller using the landline phone, and he regretted not getting rid of it. The Robinses were probably the lone holdouts on their city block to still have one.

Ed Lynskey

#33. Quote is taken from Chapter 1:
Since Etta could log in her rare Baltimore oriole sighting, she decided she'd had enough birding for one day. It was just a fun hobby, not an obsession.

Ed Lynskey

#34. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#35. So you say. I just hope you don't catch some exotic dinosaur ailment because Eustis probably doesn't stock the right pills to treat it.

Ed Lynskey

#36. Nozy Cat lifted one sleepy eyelid, and his marble blue eye glared at her for interrupting his sacred nap. He wore a yellow collar with little red stars printed on it. His second eyelid also opened, and he gave them his irritated blue-eyed glare.

Lyn Key

#37. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Noorilhuda

#38. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

Noorilhuda

#39. How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

Noorilhuda