Sentence examples for decent detective from inspiring English sources

This is a neat about-turn that transforms a decent detective novel into a gripping chase thriller.Inspector Costas Haritos, of the Athens CID, breaks the Chandleresque mould.

She's flat-out brilliant at using her quintessentially decent detective and his family, along with his colleagues on the Kingsmarkham police force, to test whatever issues happen to be upending the established order.

Martin Compston, on the other side of the law from his Line of Duty role, is cunning, manipulative Manuel, and Douglas Henshall, at the other end of Scotland from his decent detective work in Shetland, is Muncie.

To borrow from the ancient language of the nation in which his main fiction was set, and the religion of his troubled but finally decent detective: requiescat in pace.

The question now is what it might take for the decent detectives in hometown mysteries to throw up their hands and say: "This one beats me.

Though a bit gruffer than his historical predecessor, Chief Inspector Foyle, Gently is one of those hard-working, rigorously decent detectives who, even in this age of television plenty, seem to be in such short supply.

Indridason seems to find something touching in Oli's blunt manner and crude tastes, but he's as decent a detective as they come.

Because only Eva Green and Rosario Dawson would know how to be just as 'beautiful and harsh' as two decent "true detectives".

His portrait of the decent, driven, despairing detective sergeant is what gives Animal Kingdom its hopeful vein of humanity.

In interviews, MI6 and GCHQ colleagues described him as a "conscientious and decent man" and detectives were unable to identify anyone with any animosity towards him or a motive for causing him harm.

Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast still relies on a decent, clever, hard-bitten detective, Harry Hole, who will get to the bottom of the crimes he confronts.