It can feel like a city full of detectives and bodyguards.
Two gentlemen in a speakeasy were matching each other for drinks when a waiter approached and said nervously, "Please don't gamble in here, gentlemen; the place is full of detectives".
By Russel Crouse and McCall The New Yorker, January 22 , 1927P. 11 Two gentlemen in a speakeasy were matching each other for drinks when a waiter approached and said nervously, "Please don't gamble in here, gentlemen; the place is full of detectives".
IN a room full of legendary detective heroes, Adrian Monk would definitely stick out in the crowd.
The book is full of exciting detective work, along with absorbing excursions into the history of the Vikings, of chess in the Middle Ages, and of walrus ivory (known as "arctic gold").
Within minutes the entire town was full of police, intelligence, detectives and Preventative Forces, and all offending parties were arrested, including the policeman who used his service weapon illegally.
Months of internet detective work, full of false leads, disappointments and revelations, now form a compelling one-woman stage show called Half a Can of Worms – "You can't open half a can of worms".
A May review in Indiana newspaper The Huntington Herald described the film positively as "a comical detective picture full of exciting situations".
There's a missing child, a community full of secrets and a driven detective with a fiance she's largely forsaken, but the similarities to AMC's version of "The Killing" (thank the gods) more or less end there.
The crime fiction shelves in bookstores are full of tales of hard-boiled detectives unable to let go of an old case.
