sleuth
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- n a detective who follows a trail
- v watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- Izzy was a most determined and efficient Prohibition sleuth.
- Besides Maddox, the Nature group included James ("the Amazing") Randi, the scourge of clairvoyants, faith healers and spoon benders, and Walter Stewart, a free-lance fraud sleuth .
- In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his .