detective
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective tales “combined a sense of immediate novelty with a reassuring regularity of form.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
What is it about a detective show that you find particularly satisfying?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The revelation inspired a small genre of internet consumer detective work.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
He was a detective constable and lead investigator in the case of two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths, whose grandparents were jailed for murder last year, and has given evidence in other high-profile murder trials in north Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Louis Lépine and Alphonse Bertillon had missed the lesson of the very first detective story: In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter,” the suspect hides a scandalous letter in plain sight.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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The BBC can confirm German detectives are now including the incident in their investigation into the detained Russian and his associates.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
After a deluge of hateful messages, another man misidentified as Winston Lee posted a personal appeal to TikTok detectives.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Cobb County Police Department detectives and the Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s office, which oversees amusement parks in the state, are investigating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The teen’s mother, Ofelia Garcia Ortega, 36, was arrested by Monterey County sheriff’s detectives on Tuesday afternoon at the Salinas Superior Courthouse, the agency said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Agent Burger said that the conduct of one of these private detectives was “reprehensible” and was “certainly hurting our investigation.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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