Detective Work Quotes

• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Wiping Out, Littles

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Death on the Nile”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

  Carolyn Keene

  Romance, Tonight, Detectives

  Carolyn Keene (1930). “Nancy Drew 03: The Bungalow Mystery”, p.61, Penguin

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• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Pain, Doe, Genius

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.

  James Ponsoldt

  Research, Opponents, Want

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Es ridículo ambientar una novela policíaca en New York. New York es en sí misma una novela policíaca.

  Agatha Christie

  New York, Writing, Cities

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Sus novelas sólo muestran una mínima parte del trabajo detectivesco, el brillante crimen, las tentadoras pistas, la dramática persecución, la batalla final en lo alto de una elevada cima con las olas del océano rompiendo abajo, y luego... ¡se hace justicia! Si escribieran sobre el mundo real, cuatro quintas partes de la historia consistirían en que el héroe estaría sentado en una biblioteca durante meses y seguiría pistas falsas.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Héroe, Océano

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). "Destripador", Penguin

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• 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.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Real, Eye, Men

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2005). “Average Jones”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• Las mejores novelas policíacas no tratan de cómo un detective trabaja en un caso, sino de cómo un caso trabaja en un detective.

  Michael Connelly

  Crime Novels, Detectives, Cases

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