Quotes on Detectives

After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.