Sentence examples for better detective from inspiring English sources

How can I be a better detective?

The better detective, however, is the inspector's wife, Erszebet, a Hungarian painter he dismisses as superstitious.

Watson (Lucy Liu) worries about Sherlock's sobriety when Rhys remarks that he was a better detective when he was abusing substances.

So we're sitting there talking about whether Mannix was a better detective than Ironside and up comes this fifty-six-year-old I know from work and he says, "Hey!

Koenig is in some senses a better detective than the classic ones -- Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes -- precisely because those sleuths are self-assured.

Subjects ranged from who was the better detective, Kojak or Baretta, what was the best bathroom reading, and why -- Penthouse or Hustler -- or which album, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Steely Dan's Aja, or Earth Wind and Fire's That's the Way of the World, would make it into the top five of best albums of all time list (see the photo below for my pick).

The current forensic medical centre dedicated to victims of sexual assault is run by retired senior Philadelphia sex crimes officer, former Lieutenant Michael Boyle, who despite being one of the better detectives in the '90s did not see the scandal coming.

"I have to believe it'll get better," declares Detective Chief Inspector Ross Tanner.

He would have remembered that once, back in the early, struggling days, Cecil Day-Lewis, then a senior editor at Chatto & Windus, had invited him to London to lunch at the Savile club to tell him that he might do better writing detective novels or thrillers.

Medicare officials are betting that beneficiaries and their caregivers can be even better fraud detectives if only they understand what they're reading.

This may be a necessity due to the stark lack of evidence available at the scene of the deaths – a feature that some suggest could indicate the work of professional killers – but if this is the case, why not bring in better trained detectives to investigate the cases?