sleuth
sleuthhound

One of the sleuths had come on business to California.

The following morning the young sleuth decided on her next move.

He knew well that other sleuths might be on their way here.

The young sleuth was certain that he had a real lead at last!

According to the great sleuth, the time was 3.17 pm.

Before the young sleuth knew it she had reached the house.

"And how about taking your boat instead of the Sleuth?"

Joe put on power and the Sleuth shot forward over the water.

It was a last meeting between the chief and his star sleuth.

He had come to save the lives of the star sleuth and his men.

The boys decided to make the trip in the Sleuth.

IF we're going to sleuth, let's at least do it right.

Yet both the sleuth and the physician were but half right.

The young sleuth stood still until he heard the desperate voice again.

"You mean he might have been the one who left the broken glass in the Sleuth?"

"Still, somebody just might be in that house," the young sleuth thought.

"Women are like sleuths trying to figure us out, and the car is a clue."

The young sleuth picked a different spot, but the results were the same.

"I want to know about what happened at your place," explained the sleuth.

If not a sleuth, then perhaps a wit is born.

The academic sleuth is not in itself a new notion.

Suddenly the young sleuth gave a start and leaped to his feet.

But the sleuth did not allow himself to be intimidated for long.

The lone man in it kept coming toward the Sleuth.

With a wild cry, he turned toward his two sleuths.

She snarled like a sleuthhound and hissed not unlike Climber, without looking at the one who tried to stop her.

Baxter the watchdog must retire, to be succeeded by Baxter the sleuthhound.

At once the instinct of the informer, of the sleuthhound, was on the qui vive.

Its speciality--or, if you like, its oddity--was this merciless mercy; the unrelenting sleuthhound who seeks to save and not slay.

She returned his glance with provoking coolness, shrugged her splendid shoulders, and retorted airily: "Oh, you want a woman with some talent as a sleuthhound--a female counterpart of citizen Chauvelin.

John Caius (translated from Latin by Fleming 1576) describes very similar uses of the English bloodhound on the borders, leading us to think that the bloodhound and sleuthhound were the same animal.