In earlier interviews, Mr. Scarcella said that he had never rigged any cases and that he was one of the finest detectives in the city.
Appearing alongside Manhattan's finest detectives, Benson and Stabler, practically became a rite of passage (or a punch line) for actors trying to break into the business and seasoned celebrities alike.
Someday she was going to make a fine detective.
Catherine Cawood, super-cop Our hero's almost impossibly fine detective skills are a delight.
To reflect her life long love of books, she volunteered at the Patagonia Public Library where she had a connoisseurs eye for fine detective stories.
Rosen has a fine detective in Poincaré, whose supple mind can wrap itself around the more abstract implications of Fenster's theories, including the notion that proof of a grand architectural design underneath all the world's chaos might argue for the existence of a grand architect.
"The Two Chinatowns" isn't into heavy suspense, but in real-life police procedure there probably isn't that much suspense, and the main virtue of Mr. Mahoney's fine detective story is the strength of the illusion it sustains that things could have happened almost the way they happen in this book.
Thinking caps at the ready this month: the author under discussion is Ian Rankin, one of the UK's best-known - and finest - detective writers.
LIEUTENANT COLUMBO, the finest fictional detective in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, had a knack for instantly identifying the culprit.
