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So again, you have to do some detective work here.
I felt like a detective.
For example, here's an email I received from a detective in Louisiana: "Lauren, there's been a kidnapping.
We can assume the detective thinks the individual is dead.
Like the ladies in Nashville, the detective thinks that vultures circling in the sky will lead him to the body.
I provided my opinion about the vulture evidence to the detective.
Crimer Show tells the story of a supercriminal and a hapless detective that face off in this exceptionally strange lingo, with all of the tropes of a television show.
And it's a story about a Japanese-American detective in Los Angeles in 1941 investigating a murder.
He invented the detective story as we know it, with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” followed by “The Mystery of Marie Roget” and “The Purloined Letter.”
All three feature the original armchair detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who uses his genius and unusual powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes that baffle the police.
It's up to you, the city's best detective, to solve the case.
That night newspapers were all over the house, my father was with his hat in front of his face, manacled to a detective.
Imagine that you're a detective working on a crime case, and there are many people who have their version of the facts.
After months of detective work, you’ve narrowed your suspects to one of five people: the mayor, the tailor, the baker, the grocer, or the carpenter.
When a detective who had learned about visual intelligence in North Carolina was called to the crime scene, it was a boating fatality, and the eyewitness told this detective that the boat had flipped over and the occupant had drowned underneath.
Now, instinctively, crime scene investigators look for what is apparent, but this detective did something different.
So this is the difference between tuberculosis and various kinds of plagues, and you can play detective with this stuff, because you can take a very specific kind of cholera that affected Haiti, and you can look at which country it came from, which region it came from, and probably which soldier took that from that African country to Haiti.
And then they stopped, and the man turned to me and said, "What are you looking for, flying saucers?" (Laughter) You have to admit, that's a pretty boss piece of detective work for an old man on a date.
As the world's most famous fictional detective would say, "Watson, the game is afoot."
Alan Rickman & Emma Thompson give good performances with southern/New Orleans accents in this detective flick.
So Seagal plays a DEA detective named John Hatcher who lost his partner on a drug investigation into, surprise surprise, Colombia!
A pretty awful film, I'm amazed the likes of Derek Jacobi & Vanessa Redgrave agreed to be in it, it's like an overlong episode from a poor TV detective series.
Peter Renaday is Lt. Hayes, the detective in charge of the homicides cases, expressing on his face the strain that is taking it's toll on him.
There's an early performance by John Ashton as detective Matthews, always raising the ire of Hayes because of his inability to follow directions, not to mention how opinionated he is regarding the parents abusing their kids.
One of these girls turns out to be a local detective's daughter and he gets emotionally involved in the case.
The film quickly changes from a potentially intelligent sado-masochistic thriller to a boring old cat and mouse game between the incredibly dull detective and the psychopathic Captain Howdy/Carleton Hendricks played adequately by writer/producer/Twisted Sister frontman, Dee Snider.
Michael Keaton agrees to donate bone marrow to the dying son of a detective, but then escapes.
Dryly irreverent, but sadly unfunny satire of detective movies, with stony-faced Michael Caine playing a British author of trashy crime stories traveling to the Mediterraean to assist in writing the memoirs of a would-be gangster; soon, he realizes he's being followed and his life is in danger.
Writer-director Mike Hodges has the germ of a good idea (satirize the detective movies of the 1940s without compromising the hard-boiled talk and milieu), but he hasn't a very sharp sense of humor.
But the shoddy production values can't completely obscure this film's considerable merits: namely, Sidney Poitier's performance as the cool detective determined to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, even if it implicates a friend.
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