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Definition of Detectives
1. detective [n] - See also: detective
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detectives
Literary usage of Detectives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. European Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1915)
"Selection and training of detectives in different European cities.— Superiority
of the English detectives over the German.— Reasons for superiority. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"The credibility of detectives and experts.—The evidence of private detectives is
justly regarded with some suspicion by the courts, but there is no rule of ..."
3. Sunshine and shadow in New York by Matthew Hale Smith (1869)
"IN the elegant marble building on Mulberry Street, where the Metropolitan Police
force centre, there will be found the headquarters of the detectives. ..."
4. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO detectives.
THE detective passed down the quay, and rapidly made his way to the ..."
5. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"Bank Robbers and detectives. (1882. p. 231.) [A bank was robbed of some $65000.
A clerk of a store in the same building, one Sloane, was suspected. ..."
6. The Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn Wells (1913)
"5 Recent detectives of Fiction Among the best of lately-written ... In these
stories two detectives figure. Though they are professional and amateur, ..."
7. Bulls and Bears of New York: With the Crisis of 1873, and the Cause by Matthew Hale Smith (1874)
"Good detectives are rare. An unblemished character is indispensable, ...
detectives must be pure men, and, like Caesar's wife, be above suspicion when they ..."
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