Word: sleuthing
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...leak leaked on. Asked whether any progress had been made in stopping it, Sleuth Bailie cosily replied: "We always make progress...
...PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - Vincent Starrett - Macmillan ($2). Mystery-writer Starrett makes readable his really scholarly study of the great sleuth...
...pleasant variation from the general mystery story is the manner in which the various police officers working upon the case help each other and together see the thing through, so that in this story, instead of the one sterotyped super sleuth very nobly carrying on, we have the small group solve their problem by their cooperative efforts...
TIME regrets misreporting Sleuth Haight's activities. What he did say, to Assemblyman James W. Higgins of Wisconsin, was that, while in the R.O.T.C. in Chicago, he had been "picked out" with some other young men to sleuth Reds, report on them to the Secret Service. At Wisconsin he had continued this vigilance. He would gladly furnish Wisconsin's legislators with his data. His offer was accepted.-ED. Thick-Covered Ball...
DEAD MRS. STRATTON-Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Sleuth Sheringham, detecting a murder, finds himself the favorite suspect, has a narrow squeak, remains puzzled...