Quotes about sleuth

A collection of quotes on the topic of sleuth.

    Quotes about sleuth

    Colin Meloy photo

    “As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.”

    Colin Meloy Wildwood

    Source: Wildwood

    Derek Humphry photo

    “If you have to help a person die, say nothing. Let the police do their own sleuthing.”

    Derek Humphry book Final Exit

    "Beware of the Law", p. 18
    Final Exit

    Help, Personality
    Alan Rusbridger photo

    “It took one tweet on Monday evening as I left the office to light the virtual touchpaper. At five past nine I tapped: "Now Guardian prevented from reporting parliament for unreportable reasons. Did John Wilkes live in vain?"… By the time I got home, after stopping off for a meal with friends, the Twittersphere had gone into meltdown. Twitterers had sleuthed down Farrelly's question, published the relevant links and were now seriously on the case. By midday on Tuesday "Trafigura" was one of the most searched terms in Europe, helped along by re-tweets by Stephen Fry and his 830,000-odd followers.
    … One or two legal experts uncovered the Parliamentary Papers Act 1840, wondering if that would help? Common #hashtags were quickly developed, making the material easily discoverable. By lunchtime – an hour before we were due in court – Trafigura threw in the towel. The textbook stuff – elaborate carrot, expensive stick – had been blown away by a newspaper together with the mass collaboration of total strangers on the web. Trafigura thought it was buying silence. A combination of old media – the Guardian – and new – Twitter – turned attempted obscurity into mass notoriety.”

    Alan Rusbridger (1953) British newspaper editor

    Alan Rusbridger &quot; The Trafigura fiasco tears up the textbook http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/14/trafigura-fiasco-tears-up-textbook&quot; The Guardian, Wednesday 14 October 2009; As cited in Paul Bradshaw, ‎Liisa Rohumaa (2013) The Online Journalism Handbook: Skills to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. p. 176. <br class="br">2000s

    Home, Search, Question, Light
    P.G. Wodehouse photo

    “As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.”

    P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

    The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)

    Isaac Asimov photo

    “No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.”

    Isaac Asimov book The Currents of Space

    Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 11 “The Captain” (p. 114)