The Best Inspector Minty Quotes

Inspector: Tell me something I don't know.
Inspector: I wish I could.
[this exchange is repeated several times as the story progresses]

Inspector: White woman, white killer. Statistics show most mass murderers kill within their own ethnic group.
Inspector: Jack tell you that?
[Jack is the police department's expert on serial killers]
Inspector: Yeah.
Inspector: What about Jeffrey Dahmer?
Inspector: Jack said Dahmer was different. He killed outside his ethnic group, but he only ate the people he liked.

Inspector: [at the scene of a murder] I can see the tabloids now: 'Headless Girl in Topless Club'.
Inspector: That's rich. Ever think about a career in journalism?
Inspector: No. Too cutthroat for me.