Sentences with phrase «amateur sleuth»

As the movie begins, the audience learns that Sadie and McKayla have been trying to boost their online profile by acting as amateur sleuths in pursuit of a local serial killer.

This started a month ago, and he's managed to get the first book of my series properly categorized and in the top 100 of Amateur Sleuths for over three weeks.

Suspicions were first raised by amateur sleuths on a cryptocurrency forum on Reddit, who wrote that Confido's founding team appeared to be fake people with dubious profiles.

Adèle Haenel turns amateur sleuth as the Dardenne brothers try their hand at the murder - mystery genre.

But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth.

An adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's series of crime novels about a pair of East Texas pals who keep playing amateur sleuth, it was loaded with»80s period charm, had abundant chemistry between stars James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams (who became friends years before in NBC's otherwise - forgettable The Philanthropist), and was filled with weird supporting characters.

For Evie Jones, the cub reporter and amateur sleuth at the center of Elisabeth de Mariaffi's chilling psychological thriller, anxious moments like these have become a way of life.

Readers can expect lots of laughs, clever wordplay and a fun Shakespeare connection in This Private Plot, the third adventure for amateur sleuth Oliver Swithin.

Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka «The Falcon», in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes Back.

Her works of fiction feature amateur sleuth Dr. Dot Meyerhoff, a police psychologist who should be counseling cops, not solving crimes.

The series — which combines mystery with charming glimpses of English country life — centers around devoted amateur sleuth Lori Shepherd... who turns to her (deceased) Aunt Dimity when things get tough.

In this 16th installment of Atherton's delightful series featuring the special relationship between the deceased Aunt Dimity and her niece, devoted amateur sleuth Lori, things are once again looking absolutely unmanageable in the village of Finch.

In the aftermath, amateur sleuths tried to identify and shame white nationalist participants.

And for the landlubbers, read how amateur sleuths are solving some of today's unsolved crimes.

When the inhabitants of a small Welsh village start disappearing, amateur sleuth Winstone suspects her new neighbours and proceeds to investigate.

Jill turns out to be a shrewd, resourceful amateur sleuth, and Kirke (Mistress America) proves again to be a low - key but clever actress; there's a funny scene of Jill imitating another, ditzier personal assistant to learn the whereabouts of a potential suspects.

Tom Conway, the brother of George Sanders, the original Falcon, makes his second appearance as the suave ladies man amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka «The Falcon.»

But in the last hour the action wanders less convincingly into Hardy Boys antics where the kid and his lawyer turn into amateur sleuths and risk their lives to solve the big case.

The James Bond star will play disgraced journalist and amateur sleuth Mikael Blomkvist.

(In English and German with subtitles) Mystery Team (R for nudity, profanity, drug use and crude sexuality) Raunchy teensploit about a trio of 18 year - old amateur sleuths (Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes) who attempt to prove that they're real detectives by solving a double homicide which has rattled their quiet New Hampshire community.

For fans of A Man Called Ove and the novels of Adriana Trigiani, a charming, delightfully sexy, and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily's newest amateur sleuth.

The author name is CTJorgensen, to distinguish it from my previous humorous amateur sleuth novels.

I've always been interested in those two amateur sleuths because of what their characters reveal about intelligence.

With guidance from her literary hero — amateur sleuth Annabelle Adams — Moxie is determined to solve the critical question of who took school mascot Eddie the owl out of his display case, and in time for the awards ceremony at day's end.

Hired to assess the value of broken and missing antiques following a suspicious burglary at a Virginia manor house, intrepid appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass finds that her job is more complicated than she'd anticipated.

She began writing novels while working full time, and she published seven books about amateur sleuth Tess Monaghan before leaving journalism in 2001.

Ellie Quicke, who rescued waifish Mia Prior from her abusive criminal stepfamily in Murder in House (2009), plans on hosting a wedding reception for Mia's best friend, Ursula Belton, in British author Heley's entertaining 11th mystery to feature the stubborn amateur sleuth.

A cozy with a paranormal amateur sleuth — a ghost.

Death at Thorburn Hall by Julianna Deering — Amateur sleuth Drew Farthering and his wife Madeline travel to Scotland for the 1935 British Open, but instead of a relaxing holiday, they find murder, mystery, and international intrigue.

In other words, woman hysterical / man rational, but with Talman Lunar Cult symbols all over the premises waiting to be deciphered, the movie shifts gears from Ira Levin to Dario Argento: Nell assumes the mantle of amateur sleuth, exploring the building's catacombs for hidden floors and missing corpses.

It seems that the big Lebowski in Pasadena (David Huddleston) has a spoiled young wife who's run up too many bills; after the Dude looks up the other Lebowski, hoping to get his carpet replaced, he's sucked into an intricate mystery and forced to play amateur sleuth.

Mystery fans of deductive reasoning will appreciate this first book in the series, especially knowing that there will be eight more opportunities to enjoy Oscar Wilde as amateur sleuth.

At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of Alvirah's deductive powers, as well as Willy's world - class common sense.

Her mystery fiction features amateur sleuth / crime historian Lizzie Stuart and police detective Hannah McCabe.

Overall: really sloppy work from the amateur sleuths on Merseyside.

The amateur sleuths bother her most when the Florida high schoolers make the news.

Raw data will also be made available to amateur sleuths.

It's a humorous mystery series, spinning off the «cozy mystery» formula in surprising ways, and it stars the dynamic Scottish actress Ashley Jensen as the title character, a PR agent - turned - amateur sleuth.

So become a bit of an amateur sleuth, but generally if they sound nice, they probably are.

Synopsis: A house sitter (Jake Johnson) becomes an amateur sleuth after finding a bone and a gun on the property.

Andrew Garfield stars as Sam, who becomes an amateur sleuth when a mysterious woman (Riley Keough) he meets one night at his apartment complex disappears.

Invited to a health spa for the weekend, an amateur sleuth (Kellie Martin) investigates the killing of a fellow guest.

In this episode, an amateur sleuth seeks justice in the case of a young woman's mysterious death - only to discover that the accused killer is the real victim.

Perhaps with the aid of his eccentric father (Shalhoub) and his resourceful best friend (Fran Kranz) this amateur sleuth can track down the owner of this disconnected digit.

His neighbor Winston (Wright, The Manchurian Candidate), who prides himself on being an amateur sleuth, convinces him to take a road trip and find all the women that may have written such a note.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unrated) Screen adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best seller of the same name about a journalist - turned - amateur sleuth (Michael Nyqvist) who, with the help of a rebellious, young computer hacker (Noomi Rapace), tries to solve the mysterious disappearance of a teen heiress which transpired forty years earlier.