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"Detective, someone wants me dead. Find out who did it."
"I'm working on not getting discouraged by view counts and stuff. I just want to make good content."
"It's nice to just have a Batman movie where he's a detective again."
"He’s supposed to be a case too tough for even the World’s Greatest Detective to solve."
"It's what a detective's motivation is, to solve a mystery."
"It's the world's greatest detective over everything."
"Cheer up Watson, for I am very sure that our material has not yet all come to hand. When it does, we may soon leave our difficulties behind us."
"You would do well, Mr. Holmes, not to forget it, for I have no desire to do you an injury."
"Instead of giving in to base emotions in his fight, he must become the great detective that we all know him to be."
"When something strange happens and no one knows why, you need a great detective."
"This is like true detective if the paranormal stuff was real."
"If it was anybody other than the world's greatest detective."
"The film gleefully sends up the hard-boiled detective genre with tongue-in-cheek satire."
"Loki's emotional arc from objectivity to personal investment."
"He wants to be the world's greatest detective, and from what I've seen so far, he will be someday." - Batman
"Return of the Obra Dinn is the only real true detective game I've ever played."
"I feel like I'm right. I feel like I'm a real detective right now."
"If you like horror or detective stories, I definitely recommend looking for Dylan Dog."
"Feels good to be the world's greatest detective."
"Sherlock Holmes, best detective in the world."
"Well, well, well, Detective Nip Titley. Somehow, I knew they'd send you."
"I'm the world's greatest detective, I don't need Alfred to tell me."
"Those extra steps really make you feel like the world's greatest detective."
"We can do something about it... so we can get some motivation and stop eating sugar."
"A missing person's report was filed, and detective Jared Kennison was in charge."
"Great detective work guys! Bravo! And of course it didn't stop there, there were more people to die."
"It's never who you expect but the mastermind, right?"
"You're a detective now, son. You're not allowed to believe in coincidence anymore."
"Come, come, Watson," said Holmes. "Every mystery has an answer."
"And now, sir, your check, please," said Sherlock Holmes.
"I am not a faint-hearted person or anything like that, as I chose my career to be a murder detective."
"Holmes was accessible upon the side of flattery and also to do him justice upon the side of kindliness."
"The best way to enjoy Columbo is to just watch the episode in its entirety."
"It's a three hour detective epic and it warrants every second of that run time."
"Gibbs's dedication to the truth made him a brilliant detective"
"Reeves was looking to take his version of Batman through a neo-noir detective story."
"Detective with a quirk. I love monk."
"So pull out your magnifying glasses, and put on that deerstalker cap, because we've got ourselves a case to solve."
"When I hear detective, I think mystery."
"There's two out there, maybe not here," Detective Vendetta said, leaving us to speculate.
"Batman is a detective, right at his core, so really focused on that aspect of who he is, which was really cool."
"Sherlock Holmes is still the greatest detective ever."
"I'm a detective. I am a decipherer. And I am a finder of lost souls."
"And now with Howard Duff starring as Spade, Wild Root brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in The Adventures of Sam Spade."
"Columbo became an iconic cop with an unparalleled knack for meticulously unraveling complex investigations."
"I think all the great Batman stories are at their heart detective stories. That's why they feel like noir movies in a way somehow feels like it could be the Maltese Falcon."
"People say he's the world's greatest detective a lot more often than we actually see him be the world's greatest detective."
"None of you has got the right murderer and none of you has got the whole of the method right, though some of you have got bits of it."
"That's why you don't invite the world's greatest detective to a murder mystery."
"For the first time in any Batman movie, we are taken on a Noir detective journey, showcasing Batman as the world's greatest detective."
"Every fairy tale has a hero, and this time the hero was the detective."
"Debugging your application is like being a detective in a digital world."
"I'm a detective. I'm never going to be truly happy until I'm solving something truly solving it."
"Colombo, among other things, is humble, he's not quite in every man he's a detective machine and like his nameless dog when he gets the sense of murder he doesn't let go."
"The Inquisitive Rogue... built with all the flavor of your favorite rough and tumble detective like Sherlock Holmes or even Batman."
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band."
"...with more than 80 years of history, the world's greatest detective is one of the most relevant cultural icons of our generation."
"You don't seem surprised, Miss Marple," remarked Chief Inspector Davey.
"My favorite Common Rider series: Common Rider Double. This is a detective show that features two people sharing the same Rider body hence double."
"Probably by the end of our journey together, we're probably going to become like a buddy detective Duo cuz that seems to be the realm we're playing in and we love it."
"When you came downstairs Mary stopped speaking to Burnwell and quickly closed the window," said Holmes.
"He's doing Batman stuff because he is the, you know, the greatest detective."
"I love a good detective Batman arc because despite being labeled as the world's greatest detective, a whole lot of writers seem to forget that he is one guy."
"You run the plates? Nothing back on local. And without a hardline shield, I can't search federal database."
"You made a very fine detective, but you make an even better friend, and that's no mystery."
"Columbo quickly became the breakout sensation."
"The idea of the detective was created by fiction."
"I'm a detective, I missed my calling in life."
"The only unofficial consulting detective. I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection."
"The story revolves around the activities of a brilliant detective and counter spy, Leon G. Tarou, his activities can be said to have contributed to the demise of American neutrality in the 1930s."
"Detective Sergeant, you see what I mean?"
"'Martha won't die tonight.' 'How do you find her?' 'He's Batman. He's the best detective in the world.'"
"He's a math tutorer who also side hustles as a weird detective vigilante."
"We usually try to break it up as much as we can into a lead detective who is in charge of the case overall."
"And please, stop pretending you're a detective, Crazy Steve. Encyclopedia Brown was a detective. Nate the Great was a detective."
"Ah! said Poirot in a low voice. "Fool that I have been. Triple imbecile! You are a cleverer man than I am, Japp."
"...the cowboy detective notched at least 100 arrests during this time, his name was synonymous with success at every Pinkerton Outpost across the West."
"I remember being a kid being obsessed with wanting to be a detective or a spy, like the 'Mitchell' in me was like, 'I'm gonna go figure out a mystery.'"
"Classic Noir, the criminal was the one who hired the detective in the end, and that's like the big twist."
"Detective Myto was actually the annoyed neighbor of Project X. It's an Easter egg, yes, exactly, Easter egg."
"Robin is a good detective and a great fighter."
"He is essentially a modern-day Sherlock."
"Five years after Beverly McGowan's murder, a Florida detective named Reina Crowningshield was assigned to the case."
"I think you're all natural-born gumshoes here's your pay."
"Elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary."
"Reading Conan Doyle has been thoroughly inspiring to me."
"Round Tree portrayed one of the coolest detectives around."
"More detective dog Cody thinks this woman is hiding something good boy."
"Sherlock certainly tries to tail those appetites to concentrate on being the best consulting detective."
"Once we recognize what that faulty belief is, then I have to be a detective to find evidence that does not support it."
"Batman is not a cop. Batman is a private investigator, so think less John McLean and more Sherlock Holmes or even Veronica Mars."
"I'm still a pretty good detective, Amos. I can help you."
"Big Jim as he was sometimes called formed his own detective agency but mostly busied himself by extorting businesses."
"You're like some kind of super Detective."
"I've been a detective all my life and a detective looks for answers and in this place I found the answer to how we win the only way forward."
"Detective Fuhrman worked hard to free a black man... it's almost criminal that the prosecutors in this case did not do that."
"Sherlock Holmes is the same person who shocked Batman with his presence, and even Batman himself has asked for his help on a case."
"Could the greatest detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes, solve the Kira case? The answer is yes, I mean what did you expect?"
"Batman, the world's greatest detective."
"Obviously Batman has strength and can fight, but not a lot of people talk about what he is actually known for, which is being a detective."
"He's literally from the Detective Comics."
"I don't know Oliver Mellors at all. Hercule Poirot is obviously a detective."
"I became a detective so I detect the bad guys not run away."
"One of the things that I have felt like was missing from a lot of the Bat movies was Batman as the world's greatest detective."
"I love the movie. I thought it brought Batman back to who he was which was the greatest detective on the planet."
"You feel like a detective trying to solve some mystery, you know?"
"Valiant a private investigator that's pretty much all the character development he gets he's every PR you've ever seen in a film Noir trench coat Trilby notebook bottle of cheap bourbon in the drawer of his desk"
"Wow, you solved the case! Never underestimate an official town detective."
"This Batman is a lot less punchy and fighty. He's more like the world's greatest detective."
"Anoi also shows more diverse forms of reasoning, typically in a shadow or detective-like position, preferring to observe meticulously before acting."
"She's like an absolute badass detective."
"This video we're going to attempt to solve the Agatha Christie murder mystery."
"I just love finding out being a detective in history."
"I'm not just a detective, I'm a great detective."
"I love knowing who the killer is and then going back and seeing all of the clues that I may have missed."
"Using high-tech gadgets to gather the evidence and hunting the culprits with intuition and guile. Every case is like a detective story."
"It's methodical, surgical even. A cut means new information is being served and if there's no new information, there's no cut. Batman always stays ahead of the edit too, noticing things before Gordon and the forensics team catch up."
"Can detectives use it to build a case against the most notorious serial killer of all time?"
"Basically with every delivery you get to go through different case files, different evidence, different clues, different audio recordings, and one by one you eliminate suspects until you solve the case. It's almost like an escape room but at home."
"These are what every detective girl needs. They are here to save the day."
"Agatha thought that a Belgian Refugee who used to be a famous Belgian policeman would make an excellent Detective."
"I am Detective Potato, the world-famous detective."
"Roxanne Bloom, we are going to search the Bean Hive coffee house now."
"Women have natural intuition and you're a detective."
"I could tell that I still haven't convinced you about why I did what I did, Detective. As I said, it's not me, but you're the one that matters. Why isn't it obvious?"
"I was thinking more of mildly entertaining detective."
"This was the first case that detective senior was in charge of."
"An animal attraction, would you think Mr. Poirot?"
"I don't know another thing it's like it kind of sucks baby legs you're a good detective but not good enough because of your baby legs."
"My name is Da Fino, I'm a private Snoop like you, man."
"The essence of a detective story is to have a rare poison—if possible something from South America, that nobody has ever heard of—something that one obscure tribe of savages use to poison their arrows with."
"...I cannot recommend these books enough I really think that if you like crime fiction if you want to read some older detective stuff that's also feels modern check out the Matthew Scudder Series..."
"Boy, being a detective sure has its surprises. Nothing like that ever happens to me."
"Tonight he brings us the case of the missing witness, one of the strangest of his careers, a case in which murder, three beautiful women, and a fashion show are all strangely mingled."
"You're a detective. It shows: big feet, bad jokes, and a swelled head."
"It's Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the theorist."
"I'm a detective, Miss Colie, not a frame-up artist."
"It's an honor working with a famous detective like you."
"My problem is the detective walks up to the wet bar where Hayward is pouring himself a drink."
"Solving this mystery is the perfect job for him."
"Goffin whips over to the curb, jumps out of his car, walks over and he goes hi I'm detective goffen with the Indianapolis Police, are you okay?"
"This is the story of how detectives closed their minds to all but one suspect."
"N. Thacker, a highly respected Wells Fargo detective, wrote to Detective Hume: 'As for the original Black Bart, he is out of the country.'"
"This novel is set in a small English town in the 1910s and revolves around our legendary famous detective Pignon Scorpion."
"Sherlock Holmes, the ultimate detective."
"Abbott is so good, it's by Saladin Ahmed, it features this detective in 1972 Detroit, she's awesome."
"There's no need to be modest, detective Stone. I know you are the best of the best."
"As a detective, one of the first things you're taught to sniff out in a case are the patterns."
"Tim Drake is an amazing detective."
"...the detective suddenly rushed back into the room looking confused as hell."
"Through my detective skills, I have played some part in seeing justice done, in seeing problems solved, and seeing truths which the guilty and powerful wish to remain hidden, uncovered."
"I think every detective every investigator in America has that one case that for some reason it sticks to him more than the others."
"As a detective, no stone should be left unturned."
"It's a very tired detective who's been working up two days trying to find this family."
"Essentially, this is uncharted territory. It's a detective story, if you like."
"You have your secrets, Mr. Holmes. I have mine."
"Bright enough for a first-class detective."
"It was a comforting thought indeed that for a while anyway there would be no desperate men at the door of our flat in Baker Street, no life and death cases to solve ahead, where four whole days as suspended and happily uneventful as this train trip."
"'It's not what I found, detective. It's what's missing. It's finding something that should be there but isn't. Bingo, now you sound like a detective.'"
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's that renowned genius who is the bulkiest Bacchus, most ponderous, and most brilliant detective in the world. It's none other than Nero Wolfe!"
"I must apologize for calling upon you without an appointment, Mr. Holmes, but it is urgent."
"The marine qualities of a detective are intelligence and logic."
"The detective figured out exactly who did it."
"Why do you not solve it yourself, Mycroft? You can see as far as I."
"My knight was haunted by the thought that somewhere a clue, a strange sentence, a curious observation had come under my notice and had been too easily dismissed."
"The bad guy, the villain, was really clever, but the detective was just a little bit more clever."
"Let's start at the beginning, said the detective."
"In creating Sherlock Holmes he was very much influenced by the methods that he had seen used by his medical teachers... and developed new information by this method."
"It feels like an escape room right at home and it's honestly the perfect opportunity to gather all of your friends and family or even if you want to play solo and spend the best time as a detective."
"Reagan's so smart, he's like a detective, he's like Batman."
"You make me vulnerable detective."
"King blurs the lines between detective and superhero, possessing the grounded realism of Olivia Benson and the mysterious nature of Batman."
"Miss Matau is a private detective."
"This case really showed us just how tenacious and even inventive detective work can lead to incredible breakthroughs."
"I’m Sherlock Holmes. I wear the damn hat."
"The real story of 'Sherlock Holmes' is the story of the friendship."
"The principal dilemma of the detective story is that perfection demands a combination of qualities not found in the same mind."
"He's got to be the world's greatest detective."
"I'm a detective in a world with no clues. This could be fun."
"Sherlock Holmes did not care if his clients were rich or poor; he enjoyed solving their interesting problems."
"Look," said Holmes, "that is a small door in the roof."
"I love a story that makes you feel like a detective."
"Moriarty the Patriot is not only the best adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes characters, stories, and mythos but is also one of the best detective anime I have ever watched."
"You can call me Holmes, old sport. Detective Sherlock Holmes."
"You're the most awesome friend in the entire world, and the best detective I know."
"The first one to resolve the murder mystery shall be deemed as the winner."
"It is the greatest detective story there ever was."
"Sherlock's fame skyrockets after having almost single-handedly solved Dreber's murder case."
"Sure, with so little to go on, I had no reason at all to suspect Peters, except for a hunch. But hunches have paid off for me more than once."
"Remember this is the day you almost got Detective Enola Holmes."
"I would be his equal, no, a detective in my own right, worthy of the Holmes name."
"Splendid, Mr. Holmes, splendid! Your reputation is fully justified."
"Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy."
"Detective, you really should stop seeing a murderer behind every tree."
"I am a detective, I am a decipherer, and I am a finder of lost souls."
"Saki having a functional brainstem knows that these three are somehow behind the case."
"I'm not the police, I'm a private detective."
"Getting a noir detective story in Star Wars was so much fun."
"Nice working with you, detective."
"Cushing just nails it as Sherlock."