Sentence examples for detectives of a from inspiring English sources

But her followers are also just detectives, of a sort.

It was only a day later, after the boys had been fed and revived, that Raheem told detectives of a twin brother, Faheem.

They are social detectives of a sort, trying to track down the roots of problems that to them are as intensely personal and universal as life and death itself.

The plot involves two private detectives of a sort.

I had been mulling over a character, a detective of a kind, for some years, whom I wanted to put into an unusual milieu.

Several legal experts say a secretly recorded conversation by a Santa Ana Police detective of a suspect in the deadly nightclub beating of a 23-year-old woman would be difficult to introduce as evidence during trial.

Agatha Christie's masterful Belgian detective of an earlier time, Hercule Poirot, has disappeared.

A New York City police detective, one of a handful of detectives assigned to gather information on terrorism in foreign countries, was promoted yesterday, the Police Department announced.

Amassing the material took the detective work of a historian — sorting through tidbits of information, reading and cross-referencing articles from old newspapers, interviewing descendants of players.

Arnie has always been a closet detective of sorts, and a pretty darned good one at that !

The couple, Kevin and Melissa Fox, sued four sheriff's detectives, the estate of a fifth detective and Will County in federal court.