Memorable Eco-Inspired Quotes – Part III: By Illustrious Detectives, Master Spies, Mystery Writers, and Crime Novelists

While it’s great to relax and escape into a murder mystery book or a crime novel, most of us take for granted the strange background settings that make the plot and the characters so memorable – until perhaps – we are suddenly startled by an unexpected quip or passage that reveals the mood of the detective or the master spy or even the author himself. Let’s see then how well you know your murder mystery eco trivia?

1-Quote: “As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.”
What is the name of this illustrious fictional detective, the crime novel featured and the author of this work?

2-Quote: “What’s this bird, this falcon, that everybody’s all steamed up about?”
What is the name of this illustrious fictional detective, the crime novel featured and the author of this work?

3-Quote: “There is a dead cobra over there. Please do me the kindness of having it removed.”
What is the name of this illustrious fictional detective, the murder mystery featured and the author of this work?

4-Quote: “Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In a forest. Where would a wise man hide a cross? In a forest of crosses. We have a forest of crosses ready-made for us. A forest of priests; a black forest, you might say.”
What is the name of this illustrious fictional detective and which notable English novelist invented him?

5-Quote: “The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes;
When down came a blackbird, And pecked off her nose.”
This old English nursery rhyme was featured in what detective story and who was the detective featured in this crime novel?

6-Quote: “From the noise we heard upstairs you’re obviously going on the theory that Mr Noakes was killed by a herd of buffalo.”
What is the name of this illustrious fictional detective, the murder mystery featured and the author of this work?

7-Quote Exchange:
Villain: “A unique feat of engineering, if I may say so. I designed it myself. The glass is convex, ten inches thick, which accounts for the magnifying effect.

Hero: “Minnows pretending they’re whales. Just like you on this island.”
What are the famous names of both the fictional villain and the fictional world-renown spy and who is the author of this work?

8-Quote: “You’re the perfect choice, Toby…With you as his agent, Polyakov has a cover story that really sits up and works. The big three give you the little sealed packets of chickenfeed, and Moscow Centre thinks you’re all theirs. The only problem arises when it turns out you’ve been handing Polyakov the crown jewels, and getting Russian chickenfeed in return. If that’s the case, Toby, you’re going to need some pretty good friends. Like us. Gerald’s a Russian mole, of course.”
What is the name of this illustrious fictional spy, the espionage novel featured and the author of this work?

9-Quote: “A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.” What is the real life name of this English Baroness and crime writer?

10- Quote: “…It will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. ”
Who is the English author of this 19th century passage and the name of the novel he published in 1860?

11-Quote: “Come on, Joe (Leaphorn),” Capt. Pinto said. “I know how that theory works and I buy it. Hard, hot wind blowing gets the birds tired of flying. One too many birds land on a limb. Limb breaks off, falls into a stream, diverts water flow, undercuts the stream bank, causes a landslide, blocks the stream, floods the valley, changes the flora and that changes the fauna, and the folks who were living off of hunting the deer have to migrate. When you think back you could blame it all on that wind.”
Who is this 20th century American author of Navajo mysteries and what is the name of this fictional crime novel first published in 2004?

12- Quote1: ”The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.”
Quote2: ”Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
Who is this American-born detective fiction writer whose tough detective character speaks in the first person and enjoys chess and poetry? What is the name of this wisecracking “private eye” and what are the names of the two hardboiled crime novels from which these two quotes were taken from written in 1939 and 1940 respectively?

Answers:
1-Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2-Sam Spade; The Maltese Falcon; Dashiell Hammett
3-Hercule Poirot; Death on the Nile; Agatha Christie
4-Father Brown; G.K. Chesterton
5-A Pocket Full of Rye; Miss Marple
6-Lord Peter Wimsey; Busman’s Honeymoon; Dorothy L. Sayers
7-Dr. No; James Bond; Ian Fleming
8-George Smiley; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; John le Carre
9-P.D. James
10-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
11-Tony Hillerman; Skeleton Man
12-Raymond Chandler; Philip Marlowe;
Quote1: The Big Sleep (1939) and Quote2: Farewell My Lovely (1940)

So how well did you do? Well, you can make up for any incorrect or missed answers by guessing you know who —the name of the American author of the classic 1845 narrative poem, Quoth The Raven: “Nevermore” which was inspired in part by a talking raven in the historical novel, “Barnaby Rudge” written by the English novelist Charles Dickens back in 1841 —- Yes, none other than Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the detective fiction genre!