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Scotland Yard

noun

The detective department of the metropolitan police force of London. Synonym: New Scotland Yard.

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... Dorothy Calendar away and then called to apprise her of the fact? Or that he was some sort of an adventurer, who had manufactured a plausible yarn to gain him access to her home? Or—harking back to her original theory—that he was an emissary from Scotland Yard? ... Probably she distrusted him on the latter hypothesis. The reflection left him ...

— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance

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... go on to supper at Churchill's and stay there till three o'clock in the morning, you are here with him again at nine o'clock—at breakfast time. A stranger, Miss Wenderley? Think again! A story like this might do for Scotland Yard. It won't do ...

— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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... verified or disproved at the trial. Meanwhile, come what may, Colonel Moran will trouble us no more, the famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum, and once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle

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... describes him (and quotes Scotland Yard authorities who knew him well) as one of the party who murdered the policeman at Manchester, and one of the worst and most active of the dynamiting Irishmen—a professional agitator, who boasted ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

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... your coming over, Darby," he said bluntly to the red-haired police officer, who was of Irish extraction. "I have sent to Scotland Yard." ...

— Red Money • Fergus Hume

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