Sleuth Quotes

As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn't detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth. (P. G. Wodehouse)
No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth. View quote
Isaac Asimov
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime. View quote
Diane Mott Davidson
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart). View quote
Manny Farber
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. View quote
Marshall McLuhan