The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.
Suffice it to say, I froze.
Stichwörter: humor detective coffee
when you live outside the law, you have to be flexible
Tom CookStichwörter: fantasy fiction detective vampire adventure-fantasy
you were attacked by cement monkeys?
Tom CookStichwörter: adventure fantasy vampires detective
Becoming a fae leader? Not on my bucket list.
E.J. StevensStichwörter: paranormal detective faeries urban-fantasy snarky
The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.
Agatha ChristieStichwörter: truth investigation detective
I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself with such petty things as fingerprint powder, telltale pieces of pocket fluff and inane footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs Rawlinson.
"Let me give you an example. If you go to an acupuncturist with toothache he sticks a needle instead into your thigh. Do you know why he does that, Mrs Rawlinson?
No, neither do I, Mrs Rawlinson, but we intend to find out. A pleasure talking to you, Mrs Rawlinson. Goodbye.
Stichwörter: detective relationship interconnectedness fundamental dirk-gently
Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I got home.
"I thought you'd gone to live with her," she said. "You used to be a detective: find me a brownish piece shaped something like a snail with a long neck."
"Piece of duck or puzzle?...
Stichwörter: humor detective puzzles
...Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us.
Dashiell HammettShe tilted her head to the right. "You didn't even tell me you had taken the case."
"I had done what? Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I hadn't and haven't. My getting shot ought to prove I was an innocent bystander."
"Does it hurt much?"
"It itches. I forgot to have the dressing changed this afternoon."
"Wasn't Nora utterly terrified?"
"So was I and so was the guy that shot me. There's Halsey. I haven't spoken to him yet.
Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared.
Keri ArthurStichwörter: supernatural contemporary detective private-investigator
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