Sixty detectives were deployed in the effort to find the man who smashed Ms. Barrett in the head.
Dennis Potter, best known for his teleplay The Singing Detective (1986), deployed a wide battery of the medium's resources, including extravagant fantasy and sequences that sarcastically counterpoint popular music with scenes of brutality, class-based callousness, and sexual rapacity.
In September 1966 Hylton pleaded guilty to charges brought against him by a disgruntled dog dealer, who had invoked a 19th-century statute designed to prevent identity misrepresentation by strikebreakers and Pinkerton agents (private personal security and detective agents deployed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency).
Plain-clothes detectives were also deployed around O'Connell Street as part of the security operation.
Give or take the occasional overstatement of his geezer worldview (such as when he moans about liberal parenting, say), Steel makes a companionable guide through this piece of family detective work, deploying his revelations to maximum dramatic effect, visibly revelling in the knowledge that he has got an amazing tale to tell.
The Los Angeles Police Department put its elite Robbery-Homicide detectives on the case and deployed hundreds of other officers to find the suspect.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007), which speculatively situated the Jewish state in Sitka, Alaska, rather than Israel, deployed hard-boiled detective novel conventions in relating the resolution of a murder.
The team of 45 full-time detectives – more than triple the number deployed to investigate illegal expenses claims by MPs – is having to review all actions and decisions taken by the previous investigation.
It is estimated to have cost up to £4m: Lothian and Borders police, which deployed more than 20 detectives and spent 52,000 hours on the case, said its costs had hit £1.4m when the Sheridans were charged in 2008.
It streamlined its operation, re-deploying senior detectives to street patrol and eliminating staff positions.
