Word: sleuthing
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Delight is the slightly rumpled, bow-tied McCall Smith's operative mode. His books--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men--which detail the quiet and quirky adventures of Botswanan sleuth Mma (pronounced Ma, the most correct way of addressing women in Botswana) Ramotswe, have become international word-of-mouth hits, sold millions and been translated into 26 languages, partly because of their sheer cheerfulness...
...tears. Our entrees—a choice of salmon, chicken, or eggplant parmesan—arrive, and our table bonds as we try to piece together the clues. All we end up piecing together are the strange color-coded pieces of foam on our table, until one amateur sleuth discovers that these foam slips actually signal to each waiter which entrée the guest pre-ordered. The salmon is a tad overcooked, and the chicken is basically a glorified chicken nugget—a slab of white meat covered in golden fry. Popular consensus concludes that the eggplant parmesan...
...shooting. The KMT has suggested it was staged to win votes and demands a special inquiry; Chen says police should first complete their investigation. Yet many KMT officials privately acknowledge that a recount holds little hope for a reversal, and a U.S. team of experts headed by forensics sleuth Dr. Henry Lee, a star of the O.J. Simpson trial, found "no question" that Chen suffered "a grazing type of gunshot wound...
Long before Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code hit the shelves, Harvard’s own biblical sleuth was on the case. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Karen L. King has been cracking the codes of early Christianity for more than 20 years...
Long before Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code hit the shelves, Harvard’s own biblical sleuth was on the case. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Karen L. King has been cracking the codes of early Christianity for more than 20 years...