Sentence examples for detectives thinking from inspiring English sources

The use of such tricks has detectives thinking that they may be dealing with a killer well-versed in covering his tracks.

The detective, thinking it possible that the brother was the man he was seeking in the attacks, called the detective in the 70th Precinct who handled that murder investigation, Lieutenant Powers said.

The captain screamed into his radio, "Officers down!" Detective DiForte, thinking he saw a glimmer of life, performed C.P.R. on Detective Andrews, pumping and pumping until another detective pulled him off.

This last technique – not telling the reader what my detective is thinking – is very characteristic of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

"Well, this is a dead guy," the detective, Travis Rapp, recalled thinking to himself.

This forward thinking Detective heard many complaints from fellow officers.

Chapter one: the initial breakthrough When anti-terrorist branch chief Peter Clarke held up a plastic container at a press conference last Tuesday and announced that it was of a type used by the bombers to carry explosives, the British public could have been forgiven for thinking that detectives were a long way from their quarry.

"This was the kind of philosophical speculation I was prone to, hence my reputation as the thinking man's detective".

But while I find the late John Thaw's curmudgeonly detective the very definition of thinking woman's crumpet, my 17-year-old daughter would rather have her fingernails pulled out than watch anything that features an "old" man whose interests include solving crossword puzzles and classical music.

Then start thinking like a detective.

While I'm thinking all this, the detective comes in again and says, "O.K. Vamoose".