{"quotes":[{"text":"Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["detective","mystery"],"id":957,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["analogy","archeology","detective","mystery","truth"],"id":1728,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!","author":"Ron Sanders","tags":["bible-verses","christ","christian","christian-living","detective","fruits-of-the-spirit","god","hope","inspirational","miracles","motivational","overcoming-challenges","religion","spiritual","stroke"],"id":2828,"author_id":"Ron+Sanders"},{"text":"Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["detective","humor","humour","mystery"],"id":5687,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.","author":"Tana French","tags":["broken-harbor","detective","investigation","metaphor","murder","tana-french"],"id":9202,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"Charlie slowly crumpled to the floor, Allison soon joining him. “Dinner is served!” Stanley trumpeted, as he reached into the steaming mass of offal and fished around for the teens’ livers. “Aha!” he crowed, as he lifted one liver in each hand over his.","author":"Abramelin Keldor","tags":["detective","paranormal"],"id":17535,"author_id":"Abramelin+Keldor"},{"text":"The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["crime","detective"],"id":23854,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"You were attacked by cement monkeys?","author":"Tom Cook","tags":["adventure","detective","fantasy","vampires"],"id":28630,"author_id":"Tom+Cook"},{"text":"A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.","author":"Evan Hunter","tags":["week","five","detective "],"id":33165,"author_id":"Evan+Hunter"},{"text":"My mother’s father, Grandfather Thieme, the son of a railroad engineer, looked quite dapper as a young man. Prior to 1933 the Hamburg Police Department consisted of 21 units, with 2,100 men. My grandfather was a Polizist with the Sicherheitspolizei or uniformed policeman with the department. Later, with an expansion of the Hamburg Police Department to 5,500 men and the formation of an investigative branch, he was promoted to the esteemed position of a Kriminalbeamte inspector. He rose to the rank of Chief of Detectives, and had a reputation of being tough, and not someone you could mess with. Having a baldhead and the general appearance of Telly Savalas, the late Hollywood movie actor, I don’t think anyone did. An action story and part of my grandfather’s legacy was when he chased a felon across the rooftops of prewar Hamburg, firing his Dienstpistole, service revolver, as he made his way from one steep inclined slate roof to the next.Of course, Grandpa got his man! Even with this factual tidbit, there isn’t all that much I know about him, other than that, at the then ripe old age of sixty-four, he peacefully died in his chair while reading the evening newspaper.","author":"Captain Hank Bracker","tags":["detective","germany","hamburg","history","police"],"id":34753,"author_id":"Captain+Hank+Bracker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":128,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}