"Detective work" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... immediately brought to the Superintendent's office, for he had given very clear instructions to this effect in case the girl came again. He had not told the Chief of Police about her, for he thought it would be amusing to do a little detective work on his own account, and he anticipated the triumph of finding out Marcello's story alone, and of then laying the facts before the authorities, just to show what ordinary common sense could do without the intervention ...
— Whosoever Shall Offend • F. Marion Crawford
... in the street just now," explained the Belgian, "and as I was a few minutes early for a lunch engagement I followed you up." He pointed with his stick at the open bag. "Ah, you have been on a journey! Detective work?" ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... and piecing this and that together, your honor; just an ordinary little bit of detective work; anybody could 'a' ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... and also do a little detective work ourselves," he said. "We must leave now because the doctor wants you to ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... them. There could be no doubt that he had read the chapter carefully to the end. Burns put him through a severe cross-examination, but he stood the test, much to his examiner's disgust. In detective work it is usually irritating to have one's theories disproved. But he still doubted the evidence of his ears. Either John Leaver was a colder blooded deceiver than he thought him, or his powers of concentration were more than ordinarily great, that he could turn ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond
... arm within that of the girl in front of him and they paced slowly forward in earnest conversation. I suppose my action was very amateurish and very poor detective work; but regardless of discovery I crossed the road and passed ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... on you, Mrs. Pitman," he said coolly. "You're too emotional for detective work." Then he went in ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... employers to get along with, although a competent workman. The problem seemed to the desertion agent a perfectly clear and uncomplicated one and he proceeded to handle it according to the formula. Some very clever detective work followed, in the course of which the man was traced from one suburban city to another, and his present place of employment found in the city where his wife lived, although he lived just across the border of ...
— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord |
