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Meanings of great detective in English

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Usage of great detective in English
1
Holmes is not just a great detective, he has a great profile.
The Guardian
2
The world, that great detective had found, was indeed a small one.
Never-Fail Blake
3
Everyone knows you are talking about a great detective, said Thompson.
Reuters
4
Certainly he was not the great detective he claimed to be.
The Complete Jack the Ripper
5
The great detective made little of the danger he had encountered.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
6
Thus he described the great detective, and the description is quoted.
At the Villa Rose
7
It was opportune indeed, the great detective coming at this time.
Five Thousand Dollars Reward
8
The great detective interrupted himself to laugh again, a trifle complacently, Cleggett thought.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
9
The great detective alighted and handed down the missing Abigail.
The Oakdale Affair
10
The great detective went on with his masterly summing up.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
11
But in the possession of Wilton Barnstable, the great detective--!
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
12
She is in the offices of the great detective agency-'the Eye that never Sleeps!'
The Prince of Graustark
13
You got lucky, sure, but it wasn't your great detective work that brought me down.
Back on murder
14
Surely not even the great detective himself could have deduced that was going to happen.
The Guardian
15
She would have made a great detective, Joseph thought.
Solomon's oak: a novel
16
Nikki Heat, no wonder you're such a great detective.
Heat Rises
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