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detective work
1. It hadn’t been a difficult piece of detective work to determine if a regular connection existed between the movement of log barges and the arrival and departure of the only Coast Guard cutter on the Caribbean coast
2. What was very quickly revealed was that that the victim had been a detective working with the homicide squad in Darlinghurst
3. It's helpful, sometimes instrumental, but most often it just supports good detective work
4. “More legwork, just plain old detective work, I’m afraid
5. “Good detective work, plus luck,” the Chief said as he
6. Once more it was detective work for beginners to deduce that all three would have shed their old identities as snakes shed their skin and be availing themselves of the same high quality documentation as their surgeon colleague
7. They are going to send samples out to another hospital for a more advanced screening in order to continue the detective work that way
8. Chantal and David spent several days flying and then doing the detective work necessary to find Brother Francis
9. "It has always been practically impossible to get such pictures as I wanted, but this new shutter has so much greater speed than anything else ever invented before, that it is possible to use it in this sort of detective work
10. "A vocaphone," he explained, moving the switch and cutting off the sound instantly, "an improved detectaphone--something that can be used both in practical business, professional, and home affairs as a loud speaking telephone, and, as I expect to use it here, for special cases of detective work
11. detective work” suggested Flint
12. That was the extent of my detective work in the grove of trees that
13. She was never heard from again and was presumed dead, until eleven years later, she turned up as a successful and highly respected homicide detective working for the NYPD
14. A little detective work would reveal the truth
15. As they sat around a table at Dot’s restaurant later that afternoon, the group was in awe as Gloria told her tale of detective work and sleuthing
16. Look at this, officers, let me give you a lesson in detective work
17. not use his powers for detective work
18. We were doing it again, more down-and-dirty detective work, hoping for clues in the absence of a single hard lead
19. Detective work, Carroll thought as he stared off into nothingness
20. “It was a lot of detective work,” says Swann
21. “I loved the detective work in the courthouse and all that, but then you had to go out and meet these people