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Sleuthing   /slˈuθɪŋ/   Listen
Sleuthing

noun
1.
A police investigation to determine the perpetrator.  Synonyms: detecting, detection, detective work.


Sleuth

verb
1.
Watch, observe, or inquire secretly.  Synonyms: snoop, spy, stag.





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"Sleuthing" Quotes from Famous Books



... homewards in the dark immersed in thought, he inadvertently took a pipe out of his pocket and lit it. An A.P.M. who had been sleuthing him for half-a-mile leapt upon him, snatched the pipe and two or three teeth out of his mouth and returned him to France ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 24, 1917 • Various
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... a kind of genius hound. He scurries sleuthing around the town ever on the scent of something queer and caviar. He is well trained and never kills what he catches himself; he takes it to Hermione; and after Hermione has tired of it I am at liberty to do what I please ...
— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis
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... it," assented Gladwin. "So I've come home to investigate—sleuthing expedition, you might say. Didn't want him to hear I was coming and climb out. Now you've got the answer to the gumshoe riddle. My plan is to lie low and have you look him up. Nothing else on foot, Whitney? Haven't gone into mustard or ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
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... their deviltry all right," he thought "but I might never find out what they're after. About the only way is to give 'em enough rope to hang themselves, and I'm blowed if I don't believe I could do that better by leaving the outfit and doing a little sleuthing on my own." ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
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... young lady who seems to have been Jimmie Carlisle's daughter and now seems to be the daughter of this old-timer Joe Ellison, for a little private sleuthing on my own hook," Barlow went on—for it was the instinct of the man to claim the conception and leadership of any idea in whose development he had a part. He spoke in a brusque tone—as why should he not, since he was addressing an audience he lumped together as just so many crooks? "Through ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott
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