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Meanings of amateur detective in английском

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Usage of amateur detective in английском
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For once in my life I am going to turn amateur detective.
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
2
Was his son personally interested in this attempt of the amateur detective?
Agatha Webb
3
The amateur detective was lost in the sympathetic observer of a father's love.
James Pethel
4
You're an amateur psychologist in addition to being an amateur detective?
The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
5
Who is this friend, I wonder; some amateur detective, I suppose.
The Trees of Pride
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An amateur detective was pressing Sir Donald with his theory of the case.
Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
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There was no sleep for the amateur detective on this night.
Messenger No. 48
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The old amateur detective here allowed a sigh of satisfaction to escape him.
The Lerouge Case
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Every boy scout is an amateur detective and hungry for knowledge.
Mr. Standfast
10
His solution is to embark on some amateur detective work.
The Irish Times
11
It was Eliza Dallimore's amateur detective work that excited the strongest disapproval in court.
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
12
The amateur detective took in the whole at a glance.
The Lerouge Case
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This sentence fell like a heavy blow on the head of the amateur detective.
The Lerouge Case
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Had you called Austin Ford an amateur detective he would have been greatly annoyed.
The Amateur
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The Head listened to the amateur detective's statement with interest.
Mike
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He was very English, a bad amateur detective, and very weary of his task.
A Maker of History
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