INVESTIGATION in Classic Quotes

1  There have been further and sinister developments in the investigation at Norwood.

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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER

2  The old hall, oak-panelled and high-windowed, had been turned into a court of investigation.

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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN

3  You can hardly find a flaw in the case which can now be presented against him, and all further investigation has served to strengthen it.

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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER

4  But this particular sample is so short that I can do nothing, and the facts which you have brought me are so indefinite that we have no basis for an investigation.

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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN

5  All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistance which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigation.

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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE

6  The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.

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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE