Famous quotes containing the words police and/or detective:
“I’ve met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I’ve ever met who was polite to me and still made the chills run up and down my back.”
—Robert D. Andrews, and Nick Grindé. Police detective, Before I Hang, describing his meeting with Dr. Garth (1940)
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
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