detective work

So you have to do some detective work to figure out what's really going on.

A little bit of detective work I think to try and find out.

I'd done more than enough detective work for one day.

And a bit of good detective work on your part, too.

I'd like you to do a bit of detective work for me.

"We had to do detective work to find out where they were."

Sometimes it's a matter of doing a little detective work.

Then we went up to my office to do some serious detective work.

We'll have to do a little detective work on it.

But I've got my best detectives working on the case.

I'd just like to say in the first place that I think you did good detective work.

"But first I'm going to take time out to do a little detective work."

All those months of detective work and he had nothing to show for it.

In other words, he'll know all about how detectives work and what to watch out for.

Some residents were also moved to do their own detective work.

That's when I made my first efforts at detective work.

A spot of detective work too long to go into now.

Putting this information to use can take some detective work.

Most police officers and detectives work at least 40 hours a week.

It's simply that that's not the way to do detective work.

Some of the detective work has to be done by the reader.

He takes other jobs because so far detective work has run dry.

He was engaged in detective work from 1937 to 1941.

He'd been doing similar detective work on the case before he left Boston.

But I think, based on a hundred years of detective work, that they saw something.