Whatever his original assignment, the fictional private eye ends up by investigating and solving a crime, usually a murder.

In 2009, the United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri reportedly found evidence linking Hezbollah to the murder.

During this conversation, the suspect implicated himself in the murder that the undercover agent was investigating.

Naseem's disaffection only increased when the parliament began investigating financial irregularities under Nasir as well as the murder of inmates and torture in Villingili Prison in the early 1970s, which implicated his brother-in-law, the erstwhile strongman Abdul Hannan Haleem who was Nasir's Minister for Public Safety.

The Avengers began in the episode Hot Snow, with medical doctor, Dr David Keel ( Ian Hendry ), investigating the murder by a drug ring of his fiancée and office receptionist Peggy.

An early example of this overlapping form was Perry Mason, wherein the eponymous trial lawyer would usually defend his clients from their murder charges by investigating the crime before the trial, and dramatically revealing during the closing courtroom scene the real perpetrator, by calling some other person to the stand and interrogating him or her into confessing in open court of either having committed the murder or witnessed it being perpetrated by someone else instead of the defendant.

Matthau starred in three crime dramas in the mid-1970s, as a detective investigating a mass murder on a bus in The Laughing Policeman, as a bank robber on the run from the Mafia and the law in Charley Varrick and as a New York transit cop in the action-adventure The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

Present-day Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø referenced Thorvaldsen's " Jason " in the novel " The Devil's Star ", where the novel's detective protagonist is reminded of the statue when investigating a murder which happened in an Oslo apartment with neo-Classical furnishings.

None of the guests at Williams's party has a watertight alibi, but to both Pat Chambers, the cop investigating the murder, and Mike Hammer, a friend of his and private investigator, none of them has a motive either.

New York City police detective Mark McPherson ( Dana Andrews ) is investigating the murder of beautiful, and highly successful, advertising executive, Laura Hunt ( Gene Tierney ).

Starring Richard Derr as The Shadow, The Invisible Avenger centers upon Lamont Cranston investigating the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.

Their first film together was the 1959 crime drama Tiger Bay, in which John plays a police detective investigating a murder that Hayley's character witnessed.

There is speculation that the murder was related to Sikh extremism, which Purewal may have been investigating.

The week after the killing, eight Taliban fighters were captured by Afghan soldiers investigating Bartolini's murder in the Sur Ghar area of the country.

At the end of the story, the men investigating the murder conclude that Catharine Larue was Frayser's heartbroken mother, who had died some time before the murder.

Olivaw and Baley first meet while Baley is investigating the murder of his co-creator Sarton in Spacetown.

While Poirot is investigating Alice's murder, Cust marks the Andover destination in his map.

One of Hartnett's next films was the drama-mystery The Black Dahlia, in which he played a detective investigating the notorious real-life murder of actress Elizabeth Short.

Actor Peter Penry-Jones portrays Sir William Gull in 2004's Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder – The Case of Charles Bravo – a dramatised documentary investigating the unsolved murder of barrister Charles Bravo in 1876.

" At the time of his death, Horman was investigating the murder of René Schneider, the Commander-in-Chief in the Chilean army whose support for Allende and the constitution was seen as an obstacle to the coup.

In Z ( 1969 ), an investigating judge, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, tries to uncover the truth about the murder of a prominent leftist politician, played by Yves Montand, while government officials and the military attempt to cover up their roles.

* In the film Insomnia and its American remake, the protagonist suffers from insomnia partially brought on by the midnight sun while investigating a murder north of the Arctic Circle ( Norway in the original, and Alaska in the remake ).

After the 2004 documents became public in May 2012, it emerged that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( SEPA ) was investigating radioactive contamination at the site linked to the use of " glow in the dark paint " in WW2 aircraft.

John Stenhouse, a Scottish chemist, was investigating the power of charcoal, in its various forms, to capture and hold large volumes of gas.

Following the Scottish Parliament's establishment in 1999, Rumbles was Convenor of the Standards Committee when it was charged with investigating the so-called ' Lobbygate ' scandal, in which the son of the then Secretary of State for Scotland John Reid was embroiled.

The police is empowered to start investigating a cognizable offense.

Yitzhak Rabin took over, though he also resigned towards the end of the eighth Knesset's term following a series of scandals including the suicide of Housing Minister Avraham Ofer after police began investigating allegations he used party funds illegally, and Asher Yadlin ( the governor-designate of the Bank of Israel ) being sentenced to five years in prison for accepting bribes.

Under the 1987 statute, the Guard of the Rock are all enrolled as ' Criminal Police Officers ' ( in addition to their military role ) and act to assist the police in investigating major crime.

* July 18 – In Israel, a judge investigating a 1990 incident outside a mosque in Jerusalem in which at least 17 Palestinians were killed rules that Israeli police provoked the incident.

on 13 September 2010 featured the actor Alan Cumming investigating his grandfather Tommy Darling, who he discovered had died playing Russian roulette while serving as a police officer in Malaya.

Only two months earlier, on July 21, 1979, Boris Giuliano, head of the police investigation squad investigating heroin trafficking by the Mafia headed by Rosario Spatola and Salvatore Inzerillo, had been assassinated.

There is also information on size of the company from 1899 police report investigating child labor complaints ( the company had 72 employees that year ).

In gratitude, the police chief doesn't have any interest in asking Valjean for papers or investigating his past.

Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the comedy Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith and about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card.

During the course of the evening three others who visit the house: a stranded motorist ( Jeffrey Kramer ), a police officer ( Bill Henderson ) investigating the motorist's abandoned car, and a singing telegram girl ( Jane Wiedlin ), are all killed with the wrench, the lead pipe, and the revolver ; in the lounge, the library, and the front hall, respectively.

Back in 1983 Mason Storm ( Seagal ) is a Los Angeles police detective who is investigating a mob meeting taking place by a pier.

Johnnie lies to her and an investigating police inspector about remaining in London.

Josephine Tey brought out The Daughter of Time, in which a police detective alleviates a stay in hospital by investigating the case of Richard III of England and the Princes in the Tower, a year later.

The police department is responsible for investigating crimes, patrolling town streets, traffic control, public safety, and crime prevention.

In May 2012, it was reported that Swiss and Italian police investigating " a network of personal and business relationships " allegedly used for " international corruption " were looking at the activities of Enviro Pacific Investments which charges " multi-million pound fees " to energy companies wishing to deal with Kazakhstan.

A campaigning lawyer ( Emma Thompson ) who has been investigating the case on behalf of Giuseppe in the wake of public campaigns demanding the release of the accused has a break when she tries to access his father's file and is able to look instead at Gerry's, finding that vital police documents in the file are marked " Not to be shown to the Defence ".

The plot is told through the viewpoint of Wimsey, and of the various police investigating the case ( including Wimsey's brother-in-law Charles Parker, involved because a suspect is in hiding in London ).

Also attending is a police inspector who is investigating the robbery.

On 10 August 2001, the Hamiltons were arrested by police who were investigating an alleged rape.

A police officer, Inspector Doppler, arrives and claims to be investigating Milo ’ s death.

However, the police had already been investigating the large number of robberies in the Osaka area, and before the party could travel to Seoul, on November 23, 1885, the roughly 130 members were arrested and charged with the illegal possession of guns and bombs, encouraging riots, and some with robbery.

When investigating, working for the attorney is equivalent to any German police in civil issues.

This problem received a high profile in October 2007 when police investigating the killing of two Hen Harriers on the Queen's estate at Sandringham in Norfolk interviewed Prince Harry and a friend during their investigation.