Word: sleuthing
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...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...
Chap I, with the scar, took a later steamer, and was marooned for some weeks on the coast of Labrador. Chap II, without a scar, fell heir to the canceled cabin and arrived in England to receive, as inmate of cabin 136, the attentions of Sleuths A, B, C and D, respectively employed by a newspaper magnate, an industrialist, and Her Honor, the Prime Minister of England. Each of these worthies was scheming to prevent the sale of West Iranian minerals to either of the others, though nothing was further from the confused thoughts of poor Mallard. Harassed, indignant...
...intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield exhibited a girlish physique as the heroine and Campbell Gullan, with a tykish burr, played the newspaper sleuth...
...tremendous output of detective stories a goodly number attain the high standard of sportsmanship which gives the amateur sleuth a pleasantly difficult chance of spotting the criminal. Follows a list of recent good mysteries...
...platform was the U. S. Consul at Nice. Also, La Presse related an episode where Blackmer was supposed to have been invited ("lured") to a yacht for tea, where he would have been seized by his "enemies" (the U. S. Government) but for the alertness of his personal sleuth...