Examples of detective

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Along less fanciful lines, detectives can make invisible fingerprints visible by dusting them.
An impressive army of highly qualified detectives swarmed out over the whole country in search of the lost treasure.
In fact, in this case, it was alleged that the detectives failed to mention the hypnotism, knowing it would not be admissible in court.
The relationship between entrepreneurial skill and the work of detectives in the book is established in the penultimate two chapters.
I gulped down some ice-water from my glass and threw what was left into the detective's face.
Under the second category they considered investigations by private detectives, industrial espionage, technical surveillance devices, and finally computers.
Furthermore, detectives are often under considerable pressure to improve on existing clearance rates, and so cases can be pursued aggressively to the limits of, and even beyond, this enabling context.
The detectives searched for a clue.
As readers of detective fiction, however, we are potentially much less prone to such existential and hermeneutic anxieties.
Law and crime, theology and sin, evil in its human and eschatological manifestations, are all inextricably linked in the detective novel.
With much good detective fiction, of course, it is not necessary to understand the plot completely to enjoy the writing, characterization and narrative.
However, he resists spelling out here how the rival oppositional and collaborative tendencies in detective narratives relate to each other.
Therefore, during hypnosis the detective may have implanted the false identity, or at the very least, utilised leading questions.
To answer such questions, the performance historian or would-be detective must consider more than the few stage directions already cited.
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