Sleuth

There is a sleuth under us.

Tom is an amateur sleuth.

Mary is an amateur sleuth.

The sleuth gave Mennad his card before he left.

For three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth.

1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?

“This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.

We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!

As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…

If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.