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  • Sleuth's current tagline, by the way, already hints at the channel's new name: "Get clued in."

    Exclusive: Sleuth Gets a New Name; Meet Cloo 2011

  • The Sleuth's husband, a reporter who went to Guantanamo last week to cover the arraignment of five 9/11 suspects, brought back not one but three surprises: a Guantanamo Bay windbreaker, a baseball cap and a t-shirt.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Now, reader, don't exclaim, "There comes one of Old Sleuth's veiled women again," for I tell you veiled women are floating around every day and night in great cities, and especially those who, like our veiled women, are out at such a late hour on special business.

    Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective Harlan Page Halsey

  • As a recent writer has said: "To lead this boy to read Scott's novels instead of old Sleuth's stories; to teach this girl to sew; to root out the habit of bullying from John's make-up; to prepare this class to study medicine, -- these are samples of the millions of aims we have actually before us in the concrete work of education."

    democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916

  • As time went on Mr.. Bunting thought a great deal about that bag, for, strange and amazing fact, she never saw Mr. Sleuth's bag again.

    The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • Much as she thought about it afterwards, even Mr.. Bunting never quite made up her mind whether it was during the fifth or the sixth night of Mr. Sleuth's stay under her roof that she became aware that he had gone out at two in the morning and had only come in at five.

    The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • Then I turns down a page in "Old Sleuth's Revenge" and goes to the slaughter.

    Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

  • They had quite a pleasant little chat when Mr.. Bunting came and sat down for a bit, before going down to prepare Mr. Sleuth's breakfast.

    The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • Mr.. Bunting, sitting there, thinking the matter of Mr. Sleuth's odd behaviour over, was glad to recall that funny incident of her long-gone youth.

    The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • And then, while her husband was dressing, Mr.. Bunting went upstairs and cleared away Mr. Sleuth's supper.

    The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

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