The prisoner was ably defended by Mr. Berrange, who endeavoured to show the complicity of the witness, Detective Gano, a clever Mexican, who was accused by Cordua of having been instigator of the plot.
The detective gave evidence rebutting these assertions, stating on oath that he had been employed to carry out inquiries in regard to a suspected plot to injure persons and property connected with the British troops.
I should think you boys would hire a detective on your own account," said Alice Keene to her brother, one November evening, when the four chums were at Bart's house.
Let's make another examination of the letter, detective style, and see what we can deduce from it.
I am a detectiveworking on the Vaughan and Marheim cases.
The detective considered McVay carefully from head to foot.
Miserable as the detective was under this sort of treatment, it soon appeared that McVay's ease and facility had made an impression on him, and that he looked at his prisoner with a sort of wondering admiration.
No, I don't," said the detective crossly, casting an appealing look at Geoffrey.
The two wounds which the detective had received were quite serious, but not fatal, or even very dangerous, as the knife had been turned aside by the ribs.
The detective evidently expected something of the kind.
I have to see a detective secretly, who has promised me his assistance.
What would a detective be worth if he could not disguise himself!
The detective was evidently not a little excited; for, self-possessed as he was, he had turned somewhat pale.
The pale face of the detective recovered its color for a moment.
But Lounsbury's detective instinct came once more into play.
It was not very long, and his eyes seized every word of it almost at a glance--seized every word and conveyed to his brain the knowledge, undesired by him, that the detective had been right.
And he began to study that cheery letter almost as a detective studies the plan of a house in which a crime has been committed.
Still protesting vehemently but ineffectually, the detective was unceremoniously hustled into an ante-room, used since the outbreak of the war as a guard-room for the military in charge of the line.
His companion, Detective Hawke, was a short, thick-set man of about thirty-five.
As far as the detective could conclude, these pits formed the only possible hiding-place in the vicinity.
As thedetective hooked at it with his stick a hoarse voice shouted: "Ahoy there!
Among whom was your beautiful sister," the detectiveretorted acidly.
The red-faced little detectivewas peering over my shoulder as I turned.
The old detective smiled instinctively at my reckless betrayal of the part I had played in this scene, but made no reference to the fact itself, possibly because he was as well acquainted with my movements as I was myself.
His confident manner, his alert eye which took us all in at a glance, satisfied us that the event we had all dreaded had transpired, and that a detective had entered the house.
And her trembling finger crossed that of the detective and fell upon a line terminating the half-finished letter which they had already partially read.
At all events he, and he alone, could put me into communication with the private detectivewhom I had decided to employ.
An Artist in Crime' is the bestdetective story which has been published in several years.
If this sagacious but sickly old detective thought it worth his while to come forward, I thought it worth mine to note upon whom or on what his glance first fell.
Had this shrewd and seemingly abledetective expected a reply?
I turned cold in bed at the debasing, the intolerable prospect of acting as detective in my own house.
But at this instant a diversion was created by the arrival of Detective Sweetwater, a man for whose presence I was certainly little prepared.
The detectivewas at his side in an instant, and together they bent over the scrap.
Meanwhile the young detective called Sweetwater had returned with the typewriter in his arms.
I have now authority to add that your services as a member of the Detective Police are positively declined.
I'm off to do a little detective business on my own account, in the neighbourhood of the Regent's Park.
Such coolness as this, under trying circumstances, is rarely to be found, I should imagine, in a young beginner, whose reputation as a detective policeman is still to make.
Glancing furtively around at the other diners, mostly Italians, he suddenly leaned over and whispered to Kennedy: "I have heard of your wonderful detective work, Professor.
The detective story heretofore has been based upon one of two methods: analysis or deduction.
Undoubtedly the most unique and original detective in fiction.
I have heard the opinion expressed by an eminent living writer that had Dickens' life been prolonged he would probably have become the greatest master of the detective story, except Poe.
On Poe's work is built the whole school of French detectivestory writers.
It took no great detective power to learn it's on this floor.
The detective spent every waking hour that he was not on duty with the Buntings; and Bunting, who at one time had liked him so well and so cordially, now became mortally afraid of him.
And slowly he read out: "'The detection of crime in London now resembles a game of blind man's buff, in which the detective has his hands tied and his eyes bandaged.
She had not realised before what extraordinary and agreeable privileges are attached to the position of a detective member of the London Police Force.
And then Joe broke in: "That's the name of a French chap what wrote detective stories," he said.
In his time he had been a great reader of detective tales, and even now he thought there was no pleasanter reading.
When everything was arranged, the mechanician began his explanation of the working of the secret detective apparatus.
So it is that many of the most successful detective stories of to-day are simply feverish conglomerations of ingenious impossibilities.
We appealed to Mr. Narkom, and he generously appointed two detective officers to sit with his little lordship and keep constant watch over him whilst we are away.
That night was ever memorable at the Villa Irma, for the detective seemed somehow to have given place to the courtier, and so merry was his mood, so infectious his good nature, that even madame came under the spell of it.
Needless to say, he took extraordinary care with his toilet that evening, with the result that when the ladies arrived there was nothing even vaguely suggestive of the detectiveabout him.
For a minute they lingered thus, the old man talking, laughing, exulting in his possessions, the detective examining and pretending to be deeply impressed.
Shouldn't take you for a detective myself, shouldn't even in a room full of them.
I couldn't bring myself to touch a thing until after a detective had seen it.
I had hoped that that might tempt a clever detective to take up the case; but what is such a sum to such a man as you?
When the detective suggested that you should have the thumb-prints of your two nephews taken, did you refuse?
Now suppose I say, after the fashion of the inspired detective of the romances, 'That man is a stationmaster or inspector,' that would be a guess.
Jervis, those detective people actually wanted to keep it to bring up in evidence against the poor boy.
I left it undisturbed for the detective officers to examine.
The character of the detective who investigates the case is one of the triumphs of the book, and he is no stereotyped member of the Criminal Investigation Department but a living personality as well as a convincing police officer.
Pinto waited till he was gone, and then strolled across the road to the detective who stood before the door lighting his pipe.
You're not in the private detective business for your health," said the colonel, and the man shook his head.
He has Members of Parliament, he has the best lawyers in London, and two of the big detective agencies are engaged exclusively on his work.
Fix up his pay--you know," he gave a significant sideways jerk of his head, and Crewe escorted the gratified little detective from the apartment.
Well, Miss White, are you satisfied with yourdetective work?
Then he remembered the little detective whom Maisie had employed and who had been bought over by the colonel.
Bring him in," he said to the detective who held Pinto.
When the report came to her that the detective she had employed had passed his services over to the man he was engaged to watch, she knew that the full force of the Boundary Gang would be employed to her extinction.
She may or may not know where her father is--this detective business may be a blind.
He's all right for this kind of work," said the colonel, alluding to the little detective whom he had bought over from Maisie White's service.
They were lunching together at the Hotel Palatine and the detectivewas unusually thoughtful.
Undeterred by her previous experience, she had made arrangements with another and a more responsible detective agency and had chosen a new watcher, though she had small hopes of obtaining results.
There is only one real detective in the world--and that is Jack o' Judgment!
The detective sat down at a desk quietly, and even without hesitation; but his eye was the iron eye of a judge at assize.
Merton's official superior, a grizzled and capable detective named Gilder, was standing on the green bank waiting for the coroner, talking to Patrick Royce, whose big shoulders and bristly beard and hair towered above him.
It is fortunate that he is here;" and even as he spoke the great detective entered the study, attracted by the cry.
Hence, while the young detective (whose name was Merton) led the little priest across the fields to the railway, their talk was more confidential than could be expected between two total strangers.
This detectivebusiness of waiting about is too much for my French impatience.
The great detectivesat at his desk apparently too occupied to hear their turbulent entrance.
But though the winter twilight was already threatening the road ahead of them, the Parisian detective still sat silent and watchful, eyeing the frontage of the streets that slid by on either side.
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly.
The yellow omnibus crawled up the northern roads for what seemed like hours on end; the great detective would not explain further, and perhaps his assistants felt a silent and growing doubt of his errand.
The London detectivespoke suddenly in a high crowing voice that was meant to be conversational and cheery.
He thought his detectivebrain as good as the criminal's, which was true.
Valentin was expecting, for special reasons, a man of world-wide fame, whose friendship he had secured during some of his great detective tours and triumphs in the United States.
That trick of yours of getting one detective to arrest the other was the most splendid scene in French history.
After cautioning me as to the method of procedure he assured me that he did this piece of detective work solely because he felt very grateful for our effort to help him out of his troubles.
It was during this interview that he stated, "I suppose the reason I never reached the climax when playing detective is because I have never arrested anyone.
It may be that as yet he had not become conscious of the possibilities of the detective play.
The detective sensations were never as intense as those accompanying stealing and never reached the climax.
Unfortunately the one depended simply upon his exertions and bravado, while the other required for its fulfillment society's recognition of his desire and some ability for detective work.
It was only yesterday that the patient told me spontaneously in the course of an interview that he supposed he never reached the climax in his detective experiences because he has never arrested anyone.
This is the work I would like to do, Doctor, I hope some day I'll be able to get a job with some detective agency.
It struck Nick as odd that he had not encountered the detective yet: surely he and Beth had been close the past year.
Apparently the method by which they had snatched the detective had completely unnerved him.
Detective Lieutenant Brice, after checking with the airport tower at Everett, and with CAP officials, informed newsmen that no private aircraft had been reported in trouble, or even over the particular area in which the craft was found.
The wrecked scout ship could be covered up, but the loss of Detective Lieutenant Brice and Nicholas Danson would not go unnoticed, especially when Beth Danson spilled her story about the strange events that had gone on at the cabin.
Benjamin Talbot, aged 13, after locating the mangled aircraft, promptly called local police who dispatched Detective Lieutenant Nolan Brice, Everett Rescue Squad and FAA investigator Arron P.
Suddenly, in the middle of the yard, Detective Lieutenant Nolan Brice disappeared into thin air!
The authorities were notified, including the sheriff of the county, and later still Anderson Rover hired a New York detectiveto take up the case.
Three days passed, and during that time the boys received two telegrams from home, stating they should do as they thought best in the Baxter affair, and that a detective was on the way.
Then the detective appeared at the camp and followed Munro Staton on the hunt for the missing criminal.
Mr. Staton may catch Baxter quicker than a metropolitan detective could do the job.
Pitou, not understanding the nickname for what we call detective police officer's, though it had already entered into the language.
