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  • The ginger sleuth's "little (black) helper" in Tintin in the Congo is seen as "stupid and without qualities", Bienvenu Mbutu is quoted as saying.

    'Tintin' May Be Banned In The Congo For 'Racist' Portrayals 2010

  • David Suchet, that greatest of Poirots, reads 11 unabridged stories from the 14-tale 1925 collection _Poirot Investigates_ (Audio Partners, $25.95 cassettes; $27.95 CD), while Hugh Fraser, a splendid Captain Hastings, shows Christie's gift for cunning misdirection was there from the beginning in a three-hour abridgment of the Belgian sleuth's 1920 debut, _The Mysterious Affair at Styles_ (Audio Renaissance, $12.95 cassettes).

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • The ginger sleuth's "little (black) helper" in Tintin in the Congo is seen as "stupid and without qualities", Bienvenu Mbutu is quoted as saying.

    'Tintin' May Be Banned In The Congo For 'Racist' Portrayals 2010

  • The ginger sleuth's "little (black) helper" in Tintin in the Congo is seen as "stupid and without qualities", Bienvenu Mbutu is quoted as saying.

    'Tintin' May Be Banned In The Congo For 'Racist' Portrayals 2010

  • It is the bloodhound mentality, the sleuth's, the Sherlock Holmes's, the bit between the teeth which drives them on.

    [the whistleblowers a special kind of mind 2008

  • It is the bloodhound mentality, the sleuth's, the Sherlock Holmes's, the bit between the teeth which drives them on.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • As Dan, Sam in hand, stares down at her, that perennial sleuth's question is uppermost: Who would have wanted to harm her?

    Archive 2006-11-26 Bill Crider 2006

  • Illustrated by the wonderful Quentin Blake, the great sleuth's adventures are now ludicrously expensive to buy second hand.

    Archive 2006-06-01 DAVID BISHOP 2006

  • As Dan, Sam in hand, stares down at her, that perennial sleuth's question is uppermost: Who would have wanted to harm her?

    Kirkus Reviews MURDER AMONG THE OWLS Bill Crider 2006

  • The kerning sleuth's scoops were actually inferior to the average newsflash in the Weekly World News, but in these heady days of faux internet journalism, as pioneered by our own William Paley --- Drudge --- it ranks right up there with "Monica's talking points" for making utter fools of the mediawhores.

    Hullabaloo 2004

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