0 the activity of searching for information about something, often over a long period -- 调查，查找，搜寻
It has been suggested that there might be more co-ordination of detective work between the various police forces of the country.
Hamburger has done prodigious historical detective work, and his book deservedly will become a staple in the history of the religion clauses.
Anybody who has talked on this matter with a local inspector of taxes knows that to find any trace of this evasion is very largely a piece of detective work.
Knight continued to build his case on the evidence gathered by detective work.
Zadig's detective work was influential.
The other two cases also involved ex-wives going to extraordinary lengths to do detective work to obtain evidence of where the errant father/husband had gone and of their lifestyles.
That necessitated some one-off detective work to establish what had become of the firm.
If there is a link, it is a slender and elusive one which will require a lot of medical and scientific detective work to establish.
