Sleuth Quotes

#1. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

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

Mac Barnett

#3. I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits.

Bruce Beckham

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

Ed Lynskey

#5. In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

Diane Mott Davidson

#6. 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

Manny Farber

#7. 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

#8. Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

Sharon Kay Penman

#9. It's as if they've planned out my life for me and I'm expected to live it for them. I hate it. So I don't tell anyone much. It's easier that way." ~Dani O'Meara from the forthcoming amateur sleuth mystery, Dangerous Days for Dani

Claire A. Murray

#10. The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

C.S. Lewis

#11. A young, beautiful mayor's with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.

Martha Tucker

#12. Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever.

Anonymous

#13. No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth ...

Isaac Asimov

#14. 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

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. 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

#16. I simply said he was a detective, and let 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,

P.G. Wodehouse

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

Noorilhuda

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

Noorilhuda

#19. Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.

B. J. Daniels

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

Noorilhuda

#21. 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

#22. Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?

Nancy Lynn Jarvis

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

Noorilhuda

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

Noorilhuda

#25. Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#26. When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

Adrianne Lee

#27. But that's the thing about dead people: they can't warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.

LynDee Walker

#28. That could be a very sexy story.

LynDee Walker

#29. 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

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

Noorilhuda

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

Noorilhuda

#32. The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.

Mike Bove

#33. The bell seemed to have set off an
alarm in my brain, and I glimpsed at the mysterious envelope on my desk.

There was another item I should've gotten from my single-shoe salesman.

A.E.H. Veenman

#34. 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

#35. I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.

Rachel Brady

#36. I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

Rachel Brady

#37. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge

Jennifer A. Girardin

#38. Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#39. I considered my home sanctuary from the judicial arena, far from the Fernoza Family legacy, and I had no intention of sharing it with anyone.

A.E.H. Veenman

#40. Across the rectory's east lawn, through a blizzard of flying leaves, something long and thin was flapping in the wind. A ragged figure in a white nightgown hanging lifelessly from the trees.

Cash Peters

#41. has their faults, right? I wasn't perfect either. But when I was with

Paige Sleuth

#42. MG was nearly mythical, other than my entries - no interaction with users on
the off chance one was a Fernoza on the troll. And today proved I couldn't take a stranger bearing gifts at face-value.

A.E.H. Veenman