Sleuths of Fiction I'm weary now of Sherlock Holmes, and all the imitative crew; I'm tired of triumphs built upon a collar button, as a clew.
Particularly is this true of the sleuths of the Federal Government, whose instructions are never to abandon the pursuit of an escaped criminal.
For to be sure, these federal sleuths of the new school are mostly college men, lawyers, expert accountants, as was Gard; but youngsters in whom is to be found the love of a bit of adventure and the steel of a set determination.
The manner in which these conclusions were reached are but typical of the methods of the sleuths of the Department of Justice.
One of the sleuths was detailed to conduct Bill to the house of the fair lady, and there was much speculation as to whether the lady would take to Bill, or whether Bill would take to the lady.
Two sleuths were sent out to sound Higgins and two were sent out to get a line on the lady, and, after a week, the four made a report as follows: Higgins is morose and peevish; refused to talk of the lady.
But the sleuths and the bell-boy and the coat-girl watched him.
The news was kept from the newspapers, in the first place, because the jewelers requested it of the Police Department; and, secondly, because it was deemed wise by the sleuths to fight mystery with mystery.
It now seems to Paul that all thesleuths of fate are hunting him for these murders.
To Esther he said: "If these sleuths knew of the Paris confession and would coöperate with me, how easily the family might be located.
Cautioning these sleuths still to shadow this pair and report, Sir Donald and Charles join Esther, who, with the sleeping Bessie in her arms, has been awaiting their return.
Can it be that one of London sleuthsin his employ is playing such waiting game, hoping to find William Dodge?
London sleuths are camping on cold trails, tracing misleading clews, poising for unavailing swoop upon flown quarry, densely ignorant of real Lanier purposes.
These agency sleuths had become troublesome, hampering Uncle Thomas in his determined watches upon Lanier conduct.
There is no telling how much such information, promptly communicated, might have affected plans of these sleuths in unraveling such complicated villainies.
In a hundred directions public and private sleuthsare set in motion.
Eternal vigilance is the policy of the Magnates in keeping their sleuths ever on the alert for the unearthing of the plans of the anti-trust advocates.
It would be disastrous to have any knowledge of the affair fall into the possession of the sleuths of the Trusts; so every precaution for secrecy is observed.
The skeptical sleuths had classified Lambert as a "nut," and were practically sure he had done away with Madge Crawford because she would not marry him.
One of thesleuths went to the kitchen to give the order.
Doherty was one of the sleuths who had been digging in the cellar, and the hard work had made his temper short.
Lambert knew that the sleuths thought he was stark mad.
One of the sleuths tapped his forehead, pointing to Lambert as the latter nervously lighted a cigarette.
My super-sleuths will find bloodstains on the third-floor landing--and I hope to Christ Rivas has a different blood type than Portada.
My super-sleuths will keep a straight face when the fascists hand them the gun of the missing murderer.
Far away on the opposite bank Anderson Crow and his sleuths were congregating, their baffled gaze upon the man who had slipped out of their grasp.
There was a moment's inspection of the cadaverous face, and then the sleuthsshook their heads.
A score or more volunteered, despite the objections of their wives, and it was not long before Anderson Crow was leading his motley band of sleuths down the lane to the foot-log over which the desperado had gone an hour before.
I thought sleuths were long, lank, stealthy creatures who steal around slums and underworld places trying to find criminals.
Peggy, have you and Doris found a mystery yet for the Seven Sleuths to unravel?
Being sleuths won't in any way keep us from doing good deeds.
It's you that makes me feel like a criminal--not those sleuths and bloodhounds out there.
All the time that we were chatting together, I was worried, thinking about what I'd do and where I'd go, and how it would be on the first Monday in August when those pen and ink sleuths got the goods on me.
Norvallis swore out a warrant yesterday afternoon and started a couple of sleuths on the trail of Maxon and his lady friend, and they were arrested early this morning in the village of Chiswick, about fifty miles down the line.
The Sheriff, the County Physician and a few plainclothes sleuths are in attendance, but Norvallis is the real leader of the gang.
Far crueler havoc was worked by the prairie fire and the fights for supremacy in the leadership of the herd and the sleuths of the trail and the wild stampedes often started by nothing more than the shadow of a cloud on the prairie.
The Indian knows the wolf-pack too well to attempt flight from these sleuths of the forest.
Of course, I asked myself that question, and I also wondered why the sleuths of Smith's had not reported the fact, if it were a fact, to the hotel headquarters.
But how lucky for me that the sleuths of Obreeon and not those of Smith had found them!
Sleuths have shadowed Cooley and looked up the record of Dr.
Every trick known to the thick-soled sleuths of the sheriff's office was thwarted by the vigilant and resourceful Henry.
Tell the local sleuths half what we know, and they'll run him in like a shot.
And the government's sleuths weren't the only ones who were after him, either.
The other newspapers enviously plagiarized it and set their news-sleuths on Jim's trail.
In blissless ignorance of it, Zada had been inspired to set a firm of sleuths on Charity's trail.
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