Tom Reiss

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

American Author

Patti Smith

For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.

American Musician

Phillipa Soo

You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story that we're telling?' 'What are the clues in the text that I can find that will help inform what story we're telling?' It's almost like a detective mystery.

American Actress

Carl Hiaasen

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

American Writer

Thomas Gibson

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.

American Actor

Chester Himes

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

David Lynch

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

American Director

Shane Black

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

Ruth Rendell

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

British Writer

Robert Carlyle

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

Scottish Director

Detectives solve mysteries, often relating to criminal activities or secretive behavior.

Crime Solver

Detectives can be private individuals hired to investigate matters independently of law enforcement.

Not Always Police

Detective is often used in the context of literature or movies that focus on crime-solving.

Genre Specific

As an adjective, 'detective' describes actions related to gathering facts and evidence.

Investigative Action

Detective can describe actions outside law enforcement, like academic research or problem-solving.

Non-Police Context

Detective work requires focusing on details that help understand a larger situation.

Detail Oriented

 you he's told him repeatedly he didn't do this they keep accusing him they've been in this room with him for many hours the detective tells crow he has a choice of two paths if he doesn't confess he'll be punished in an adult prison if he does confess he will get help this is a lie

Interrogation or Child...

 difficult it turns out that agencies like the Attorney General's Office and a lot of other government agencies don't actually track the things that matter one day I walked into a conference room there were dozens of detectives with huge stacks of files there were cases

Who occupies US prisons?...

 the clouded leopard is one of the most elusive difficult animals in the whole world to film and this is conclusive evidence that there is one living not more than a couple of miles away from camp looking for tracks and signs is detective work it's almost like putting

Spotting One of the...

 After months of detective work, you’ve narrowed your suspects to one of five the mayor, the tailor, the baker, the grocer, or the carpenter. You’ve invited them to dinner with a simple you’ll slip a square of a rare werewolf antidote into each of their dinners.

Can you solve the secret...

 are traditional heroes. But their outsider status is exactly what helps them slip past security and make suspects let their guard down. As you might have guessed, Agatha won her sister’s bet. Her eccentric detectives, clever clues, and simplified suspects

How to write like the...

 and the occupant had drowned underneath. Now, instinctively, crime scene investigators look for what is apparent, but this detective did something different. He looked for what wasn't there, which is harder to do. And he raised the

A lesson on looking PIPE...

 Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data. Let's work out a baby problem. Imagine that you're a detective working on a crime case,

What's so sexy about...

 water cold stranded that's weird dangerous for the whale the baby is now aware that they need to be extra careful where they use sonar to protect nearby whales so this is a case of good detective work

Killer Whale Ears PIPE Wild...

 one of the most diverse groups of mammals in the world it can be difficult for us detectives to investigate bats because they live in the dark and they move fast

Bats by Night PIPE Wild...

 if not magic then what does it do it's been a mystery through the ages some detectives thought it was a weapon others thought it might help attract Timmy