Pulz had brought some extraordinary garish detective stories.

Detective story magazine.

"He's always been a great hand at reading these detective tales, and to set him to watch anybody is like offering chickens to a niggerhe fair revels in it!"

His was not a contemplative nature; a trade journal or a detective novel were the customary solace of odd moments like this.

(In Flynn's weekly detective fiction, Jan. 14-Feb. 4, 1928)

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He had originally taken up detective work more as a relief from the boredom of his lot as a wealthy young man, leading an aimless, useless life with others of his class, than by deliberate choice of his vocation.

What every officer in the detective force feels he wants is a light, portable instrument by means of which he can unaided secure his man, however cunning and however powerful he may be.

" I looked at the card, annoyed at being disturbed; but at the sight of it my torpor fell from me, for upon it was written the name of that detective officer whom in my story I had called William Dawson, and in the corner were the letters "C.I.D." (Criminal Investigation Department).

You folks have tried your hands at the detective business and made a mess of it.

in Two complete detective books, reg. 14Feb47.

On the strength of it, he has been made deputy police commissioner, in charge of the detective bureau.

There were also vague rumours of a scandal not unconnected with Mrs. Morton herself and her own past history, which in her anxiety for her husband she had been forced to reveal to the detective-inspector in charge of the case.

"When I heard how the enemy plotted and Dawson counter-plotted with all those skilled workmen in his detective service, it occurred to me that an enemy with imagination might counter-counterplot by getting men inside Dawson's defences.

(In Startling detective adventures, Nov. 1933) © 29Sep33; B203325.

In view of the amount of crime which the detective police is apparently unable to trace to its authors, and the number of criminals who constantly elude arrest, Mr. PUNCHINELLO begs to submit an entirely new and original plan for the prevention and detection of crime, which he hopes will receive the favorable consideration of the powers that be.

Joe also wired for a man from a well known detective agency to meet the show at the next town.

Its nearest native equivalent is, probably, our Dead-Beat;" meaning, variously, according to circumstances, a successful American politician; a wife's male relative; a watering-place correspondent of a newspaper, a New York detective policeman; any person who is uncommonly pleasant with people, while never asking them to take anything with him; a pious boarder; a French revolutionist.]

" The detective instinct was alive in Louise.

"Oh, that detective chap.

"Our detective system may have some faults, but when a man's name is put on the list where yours figures, he has not one chance in a million of leaving the country or of gaining any place of hiding.

Queen's Quorum: the 101 most important books of detective-crime short stories.

Death House bargin [sic] (In Ten detective aces.

We may verify them, if we take particular pains to do so, by training the sense of seeing to play the part of a detective camera.

The Pinkertons, a detective dynasty.