Every detective tale needs a red herring, and I had mine: What if I pursued the author of "Velvet Lawn" instead?
But even the most hard-boiled Scandinavian detective needs a holiday from time to time and when they do they're likely to head to North Jutland.
"You set up your stories logically, like a chess game: all the detective needs to know is the rules, he replays the moves of the game, and checkmate, the criminal is caught and justice has triumphed.
Martin's Minotaur, $24.95), another grimly engrossing procedural in a stylish noir series by Ian Rankin, this Edinburgh detective needs all his interviewing skills to get a handle on Philippa Balfour, a 20-year-old art student at the University of Edinburgh who has gone missing.
Sometimes all a detective needs to crack a case is a stroke of good luck--like finding a fingerprint in the right place.
The detective needed to retrieve bullets from the body and asked her to observe.
By and large, people looking for a vocation as a detective need to begin off as cops.
Veteran cybersecurity investigators agree that the best data detectives need to go beyond the Internet.
When detectives need a copy of a mug shot, they use a Polaroid camera to photograph a computer screen.
The first time, he was told that New York police detectives needed to talk to him about an incident in a hotel.
