Detective Work

Combining detective-work with a love of books was a sure-fire way of getting my attention. ❋ Michael May (2007)

As a romanticist, he was interested in origins, myths, and folk-art — anxious not to wipe out this material as merely untruthful, but to do detective-work on it and use it as evidence. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)

A short time after that a syndicate took up a man named Goebel and tried to do the same thing, but again our detective-work was too much for them. ❋ Unknown (1910)

From reading Australian books and talking with the people, I became convinced that the aboriginal tracker's performances evince a craft, a penetration, a luminous sagacity, and a minuteness and accuracy of observation in the matter of detective-work not found in nearly so remarkable a degree in any other people, white or colored. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

The final instalment, called If Dogs Run Free, saw Frost deploy his familiar style of detective-work to bring a dangerous criminal, played by Adrian Dunbar, to justice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Hey there]; do you and your friends want to [come back] to [my van] and do some detective work? ❋ Jean Genet Ramsey (2008)

Person 1: hey, i saw your follow [request] yesterday! [btw] how did you find my instagram 🤔 Person 2: it was for [uh] detective work ❋ Hisokas.corset (2021)