Sentence examples for detective hunt from inspiring English sources

During their stay several of the monks are gruesomely murdered and William and his young assistant are soon involved in a detective hunt to track down the villain.

You could say that our sexual longings are compensatory, and that desire for what is forbidden or taboo is part of the long detective hunt for what we have lost and can never find.

One of the more interesting concerns a scientific detective hunt in Cambodia to find much-needed clues to the development of resistance in the malaria parasite to the life-saving artemisinin drugs that are key to continuing progress against the disease.

And there is a fascinating cast of these same researchers in "A Plague of Frogs," the story of the ecological detective hunt that followed the discovery, by Cindy Reinitz, a schoolteacher, and a vanload of sixth, seventh and eighth graders, of severely distorted frogs in an innocuous pond on a farm in Minnesota in 1995.

In the two weeks since President Obama made good on that threat -- in fact, bested it by declining to give Pakistan a chance to act first -- reams have been written about the painstaking detective hunt that led to bin Laden.

In The Fall, Gillian Anderson plays a detective hunting down a serial killer who targets young women.

PROBABLY the wrong way to approach John Banville's new novel is as a detective, hunting for what it means.

And where last year was an intimate tale of a monster, his understudy and the detective hunting them, this year is bigger, more sprawling.

Top of the Lake is no different and sees Elisabeth Moss deliver a stunning central performance as an idealistic detective hunting for the truth in a male-dominated world.

A biggish-budget US film with a major star, adapted from a novel by his beloved crimewriter James Lee Burke, the movie is about a detective hunting a serial killer in America's deep south.

Pacino's other notable films of the 1990s include Carlito's Way (1993); Heat (1995), a crime drama in which he played a detective hunting a thief (Robert De Niro Donnie Brascoco (1997), in which he starred as a low-level mobster who unknowingly befriends an FBI agent (Johnny Depp and Oliver Stonene's Any Given Sunday (1999).