As he turned to re-enter the dance-hall he was confronted by the detective, who held two frowning weapons upon him. Benson was at last a prisoner. The detective brutally ordered his quarry inside. Benson, seeing he was beaten, made a manly plea that he might be let to bid his horse good-by. The detective seemed moved. He relented. Benson went to his good old pal. "Here's your chance for a fine bit," called Baird.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
The very day after this conversation he bounced into her room in great dudgeon. "There, madam! the advertisements _have_ produced an effect; and not a pleasant one. Here's a detective on to us. He is feeling his way with Karl. I knew the man in a moment; calls himself Poikilus in print, and Smith to talk to; but he is Aaron at the bottom of it all, and can speak several languages. Confound their impudence! putting a detective on to _us,_ when it is they that are keeping dark."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Now if Zoe had been an Old Bailey counsel, she would have kept him to the point, reminded him that his visitor was unseen, and fixed a voluntary falsehood on him; but she was not an experienced cross-examiner, and perhaps she was at heart as indignant at the detective as at the falsehood: so she missed her advantage, and said, indignantly, "And what business had you with a detective? You having one at all, and then calling him your solicitor, makes one think all manner of things."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"You are not very sharp, then, for a detective," said Ashmead. "Well, shut your mouth and open your eyes. Your Mr. Severne was the lady's lover, and preyed upon her. He left her; she was fool enough to love him still, and pined for him. He is a gambler, and was gambling by my side when Mademoiselle Klosking came in; so he cut his lucky, and left me fifty pounds to play for him, and she put the pot on, and broke the bank. I didn't know who he was, but we found it out by his photograph. Then you came smelling after the money, and we sold you nicely, my fine detective.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Lamentable this! I say, this must be remedied. Till this be remedied in some measure, there is nothing remedied. "Detect quacks"? Yes do, for Heaven's sake; but know withal the men that are to be trusted! Till we know that, what is all our knowledge; how shall we even so much as "detect"? For the vulpine sharpness, which considers itself to be knowledge, and "detects" in that fashion, is far mistaken. Dupes indeed are many: but, of all _dupes_, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.英文原著 · 《Heroes and Hero Worship》
Moreover, it was a trick of which he approved. When he bore the detective to earth the cameras halted their grinding while a dummy in the striking likeness of the detective was substituted. It was a light affair, and he easily raised it for the final toss of triumph. "Throw it high as you can over those tables and toward the bar," called Baird. The figure was thrown as directed. "Fine work! Now look up, as if he was still in the air, now down, now brush your left sleeve lightly with your right hand, now brush your right sleeve lightly with your left hand. "All right--cut.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
*Again, our top story--* *Fairview police detective Chuck Vance is dead* *after a hit and run accident* *that has left the community stunned.* *Detective Vance was crossing Lake Street* *approximately 11:00 P. M.* *when he was run down by a dark sedan.* Hello, sunshine. How you feelin' this mornin'?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Detective: "She was cheating on you?" Suspect: "She was sleeping with somebody, I know she was." Detective: "Did you kill her?" Suspect: "I... I don't know." Thank you.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》