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Example sentences for: detective

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It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.
For many years, Great Britain has been the source of TV detective stories.
1510), and similar texts from France, Spain, Italy, and England, through the criminal biography, fictionalized accounts of crime and the underworld, and finally the detective novel.
Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his "Suburban Detective Mystery" series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like the Unabomber, Katz is driven frothy by a world that won't conform to his expectations.
This detective obliquely threatened the life of Gennifer Flowers.