armchair detective

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Sir, what a wonderful subject for the armchair detective is that of British railway history!

The urgency of the threat has even led doctors not involved in investigating the outbreak to try to aid their colleagues by being armchair detectives.

(Armchair detectives always sit up straighter at the mention of "execution style."

She replied, "Karl is the typical armchair detective."

Tyson said with a touch of sarcasm, "I've heard of armchair detectives.

His popular radio series "The Armchair Detective" attracted more than ten million listeners a week.

Perhaps it's a cheap shot for an armchair detective to whine about the caution of dedicated and exceptionally hard-working investigators.

Despite his vanity about his own talents, Bill Owen is a nondescript armchair detective.

'Not bad for an armchair detective.'

Her character The Old Man In the Corner was among the earliest armchair detectives to be created.

As the armchair detective never sees any of the investigation, the reader can attempt to solve the mystery on the same terms as the detective.

This is one of three books of short stories featuring Orczy's armchair detective, and although the first published it is second chronologically.

In the person of armchair detective Tabaret, nicknamed Père Tireauclair, (lit.

Armchair detectives will spot some dramatic changes when PBS-TV's "Mystery!"

His agoraphobia makes him an "armchair detective" like Nero Wolfe or Lincoln Rhyme.

Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, an armchair detective created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout.

Rebecca Stott's intricately plotted "Ghostwalk" begins in the orthodox fashion, with a corpse, a clue and an armchair detective.

At least one armchair detective has used the data to find a cluster that police in his area agree is the work of a heretofore unacknowledged serial killer."

Amusing and original, each case more baffling than the last, we guarantee the Labours of Hercules will test the wits of the most ingenious armchair detective.

I allowed myself a moment's satisfaction at having played armchair detective successfully, then reminded myself that Souza's love life had nothing to do with why I was there.

Lately Randall Garrett has been writing of an armchair detective, Lord Darcy, from a world where magic is a developed science with its own mathematics and special tools.

Unlike the American equivalent spawned by Crimewatch, America's Most Wanted, Crimewatch itself usually appeals for unsolved cases, inviting viewers to be armchair detectives.

Maury Chaykin is the armchair detective Nero Wolfe, a reclusive genius with little patience for people who come between him and his devotion to food, books and orchids.

If he wants to comment on our current notions of discovery, to turn us all into armchair detectives, Googling here and there and everywhere to solve the puzzle, he is a genius.