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• n  a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
• v  watch, observe, or inquire secretly

• Slonimsky's sleuthing has also revealed that Liszt's great rival, Austrian Piano Virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg, was not, as he claimed to be, the bastard son of nobility (his real .
• Paul Haggis' drama, based on a true case, is a big improvement on his Oscar-winning Crash: strong in the sleuthing, sobering in its political conclusions.
• Given the highly explosive nature of its conclusion and its slapdash sleuthing, it was no surprise that the film was panned by some academics and many Christian clerics.

• detection
• detecting
• detective work
• spy
• stag
• snoop
• sleuth

News & Articles

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• Florida expands Holocaust restitution program
  Tracking property stolen by the Nazis may sound like the plot of a spy thriller, but this is bureaucratic sleuthing. The actual task will come down to tedious research and outreach.
  June 14, 2013 - Miami Herald
• Daughter Tracks Down Dad's Accused Shooter
  Joselyn Martinez was just 9 years old when her father was gunned down outside their family's restaurant. Twenty-seven years later, she was able to use some Internet sleuthing to track down the man accused...
  June 11, 2013 - NBC New York
• The Grueling Application Process To Land A Job At The NSA — The Largest Employer Of Mathematicians In The USA
  The NSA is making news recently following the leaking of classified information from the agency's intelligence operations. The agency is particularly interesting because it maintains a stable of mathematicians to solve any problems that come up in the course of sleuthing.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• India Knight in Forbes
  I want to stop reading, listening, watching, Googling, amateur sleuthing,wrote columnist India Knight in the Sunday Times. "I nauseate myself with my own prurience."
• Steve Jobs in Direct Traffic News
  Responding to his 'outing' on the blog, Fake Steve Jobs said: "My cover has been blown. Guy named Brad Stone, who works for the New York Times. Have you heard of him? Well, tip of the hat to you, Brad Stone. You did the sleuthing. You put the pieces...
• Francis Escudero in GMA news.tv
  Assassinations are not street crimes like cell phone snatching. It takes a lot of sleuthing to unmask gun-for-hires. This is a job best done by our intelligence guys,Escudero said, adding, "I hope this is not another pr job to mollify...