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detective work

n. a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet" [syn: detection, detecting, sleuthing]

Usage examples of "detective work".

He was an ex-Los Angeles homicide cop and he'd helped me a lot in my transition from my past life to detective work.

He handed over his money, thinking that detective work was getting expensive.

Do you believe I owe you something because of your crackerjack detective work?

Unfortunately, the Caution novels were flawed by Cheyney's lack of first-hand knowledge of the American underworld, but he was on much safer ground with Callaghan, who operates in a milieu that he knew from his own detective work, and in which he had been a regular figure even before the success of his books.