I got the name of the detective on the case from her.

As a result, a whole team of detectives had been put on the job.

The number of detectives is down 20 percent from 1999.

We had more than our share of private detectives for a while.

At present, 484 of the department's 3,169 detectives are women, police officials said.

I haven't had a chief of detectives for a hundred years and more.

Then I went and talked to the chief of detectives.

You didn't need to be much of a detective to put those pieces together.

One of the detectives had found the key to the big safe behind the door.

Each of the detectives had a good ten years on him.