11.   Real detective work can be pretty dull.

12.   So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.

13.   A little bit of detective work I think to try and find out.

14.   The detective work fascinated him.

15.   But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji, Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them.

16.   But his collection lay undiscovered for decades, until a careful piece of botanical detective work brought it to light.

17.   He was arrested after painstaking detective work.

18.   A TENACIOUS piece of detective work involving wartime fliers in Britain and America has had a fairy tale ending for Courtaulds pensioner Norman Bate.

19.   Vital detective work by scientists based at Harwell has linked radon gas with a possible two and a half thousand lung cancer deaths.

20.   Although always alert to the need for narrative, she regards the art of biography as partly detective work, or like preparing a legal case for court.