"In all the best detective stories, the neatest of solutions can be upset by a single clue."
"Cole Phelps, this very hard-nosed no-nonsense police investigator quickly rising through the ranks of the force with his inquisitive outside-of-the-box mindset."
"He’s supposed to be a case too tough for even the World’s Greatest Detective to solve."
"You would do well, Mr. Holmes, not to forget it, for I have no desire to do you an injury."
"I mean you had me at Agatha Christie but then just throw in Sherlock Holmes and Alfred Hitchcock."
"Instead of giving in to base emotions in his fight, he must become the great detective that we all know him to be."
"He wants to be the world's greatest detective, and from what I've seen so far, he will be someday." - Batman
"Sherlock Holmes, best detective in the world."
"Human beings lie again, to cover or to protect. I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Holmes."
"It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting."
"Light also outsmarts El and foresees that L would check the sending order of the FBI names and faces to their potential killer."
"This man is the pride of the British Empire, the famous consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
"Sherlock Holmes's great deduction, case closed."
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought us Sherlock Holmes, considered to be the greatest fictional detective..."
"Max Carrados: Not a professional detective, but a wealthy amateur with highly developed senses."
"The next thing to do is catch the 12 o'clock train to Torquay tomorrow and verify our brilliant conclusions," said Tommy.
"Conjured up in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was only in his 20s at the time, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the 1887 story 'A Study in Scarlet'."
"Which fictional detective is assisted by Captain Hastings? Hercule Poirot, final answer."
"Agatha Christie was perhaps the greatest detective story writer of all time, a woman of mystery both in books and in life."
"He largely created the hard-boiled detective story... and advanced so quickly from a completely unschooled amateur writer into a master of literature."
"You have your secrets, Mr. Holmes. I have mine."
"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."
"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."
"I just love a cozy twee Miss Marple, I can't help it."
"Elspeth McGillicuddy, I think she's one of the best characters in the Agatha Christie Miss Marple books."
"Miss Silver and Miss Marple are very, very similar. If you like Miss Marple, you will like Miss Silver."
"I love how Saint Mary Mead becomes the most present part of the book."
"Miss Marple makes the Miss Marple books, she really does."
"So there we have it, I have now ranked all 12 of the Miss Marple books for you."
"It is a detective story from beginning to end."
"Special Agent John Hacket always gets his man, and when you're that good, you make your own rules."
"This is an interesting crime, Mr. Holmes," said the inspector.
"Don't worry, Mr. Sholto," said Holmes, "I know that you didn't kill your brother."
"Listen, Mr. Holmes," said the inspector, "this is a matter for the police."
"Good dog, Toby, come here, good dog," Holmes said.
"He's on the trail!" cried Holmes. "Let's go."
"Bring them to justice, Mr. Holmes. You have my sympathy and my help, whoever they may be."
"It was Elementary, my dear Watson."
"It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes bluntly. "You have no chance at all."
"My dear Watson, you would confer a great favour upon me by coming."
"He saw himself as a gumshoe in a TV series."
"The events that took place in the village of Road during the year 1860 would seem straight out of Victorian detective fiction."
"The good inspector will always try and do the morally right thing."
"The whodunit line of detective fiction has been historically seldom trodden ground in the world of Manga and Anime."
"Is it any wonder why he inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write his most famous books, Sherlock Holmes?"
"Every case is a booklet full of leads to follow up, characters to question, clues to look for."
"Basil of Baker Street, a brilliant detective who thwarts injustices to best his arch nemesis, Professor Ratigan."
"Well, the mystery is getting deeper," said Fatty.
"Sherlock Holmes is the celebration of mind."
"Sherlock Holmes for all the same reasons I love Star Trek."
"It really deals with a lot of the things that I like, you know, fantasy, police dramas, hard-boiled detective work."
"Think Sherlock Holmes if he was in the body of Brock Lesnar."
"I'm reading 'The Moonstone' by Wilkie Collins, which T.S. Eliot called the first, best, and longest detective fiction in the English language."
"Nero Wolfe never lets a client sign anything except a check drawn to his order."
"Mutual now brings you, complete with bowler hat and brave mustache, your favorite detective Hercule Poirot."
"It's a good autumnal sort of read, and I think he did a good job, especially with Dr. Watson."
"It's very noir, web of lies, gumshoe territory."
"I loved the Sherlock special, it was great."
"We ate it yesterday," Holmes said to Mr. Baker. "But we bought a nice new goose this morning for you."
"Sherlock Holmes had a brilliant mind and was able to find the answers to the strangest mysteries."
"There were like comedic times, I felt like it was great because there was banter between the detective and his partner."