detective
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The lead detective on the case has assured her that calls continue to come in and there have been recent updates, but details are limited.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
Ms. Medina, playing the flustered, overtaxed Tiphaine, is terrific, as is Ms. Arné, whose Lucie has to toggle from hard-boiled detective to strategy-free investigator.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"So you have to do a little bit of detective work and try and figure out when this might have been from," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Lacking leads in the Virginia bank robbery, a police detective turned to what one judge in the case called a “groundbreaking investigative tool ... enabling the relentless collection of eerily precise location data.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
He got his revenge by founding the first private detective agency in the world.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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