Sentence examples for it the detective from inspiring English sources

Then I said, 'Do you know who did it?' " The detective told him they were investigating.

After a few weeks, Mr. Weston was able to track down the phone and return it, the detective said.

"The guys are saying, 'If it's going to be this much trouble, forget about it,' " the detective said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss police tactics.

Because her story had been disjointed, and she had stumbled over several sections of it, the detective had thought that she was confabulating, creating a crime where none had occurred.

"I said, 'Blue.' He said, 'We have your car.' " Less is known about what happened to the Corvette over the past 36 years than what did not happen to it: apparently no one ever tried to register or insure it, the detectives said, or the same flag from the database would have surfaced.

Based on the books by the late Michael Dibdin, Zen won good notices from television critics with the Mail on Sunday calling it, "compelling, stylish and intelligent drama" and the Sunday Telegraph billing it as "the detective drama of the year".

But what is it about the detective genre that has led him to write so many whodunnits, with more still in the offing?

A man shot and killed by a police detective in East Harlem on Tuesday had drawn a gun and was pointing it at the detective's partner, a Police Department spokesman said yesterday.

But Columbo brings us back to the idea that the best person to solve a crime isn't a charming amateur, it's the detective in charge of the case.

After eight years in which no one had been arrested for scores of rapes it took the detective just a few hours with the paperwork to identify Reid as the main suspect.

It sees the detective brought in to investigate the case of a Swedish national who has gone missing in Cape Town, which turns out to be part of a complex conspiracy, giving Wallander plenty to sink his existential teeth into.