Sentence examples for trail of clues from inspiring English sources

Prof Netzer followed a careful trail of clues before discovering Herod's mausoleum three weeks ago.

So the trail of clues points toward an accomplished athlete and academically solid upperclassman of unremarkable stature.

Prometheus begins, as Kubrick's did, with a trail of clues on Earth that takes the explorers into space.

Whistle-blowing stagehands had left a whole trail of clues, if only we hadn't been too stupid to see them.

The murder of a curator at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo.

In addition, Mr. Hanssen seems to have left his own rather noticeable bread-crumb trail of clues.

He hides it before topping himself and he's left a trail of clues embedded in Botticelli's illustrations of Dante!

But security expert Jacob Appelbaum warns that it leaves a trail of clues that could be used to find whoever's using it, and what content they have accessed.

Forensic researchers who have studied mothers convicted of killing their children said that such women often leave a trail of clues behind them.

A year ago, she turned internet detective, hoping that she would find a trail of clues online that would lead to her biological family.

In her review in The New York Times, Meg Wolitzer praised Ms. Balliett for taking "the literary craze for intellectual sleuthing" and combining it with "a fidelity to old-fashioned trail-of-clues children's books".