hawkshaw

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The Word of the Day for June 17 is:

hawkshaw   \HAWK-shaw\   noun
     : detective 

Example sentence:
     Though she risked being late for an appointment, Amanda could not bring 
herself to set the book down until the novel?s hawkshaw had solved the mystery.

Did you know?
     If you're a fan of mystery writing, you may have a favorite fictional 
detective. Perhaps it's Hercule Poirot (created by Agatha Christie), Lord Peter 
Wimsey (created by Dorothy L. Sayers), or Mike Hammer (created by Mickey 
Spillane). These and other famous sleuths from the mystery genre follow in the 
tradition of a fictional detective from the 19th century: Hawkshaw, a 
theatrical gumshoe introduced in the 1863 play _The Ticket of Leave Man_ by 
British dramatist Tom Taylor. "Hawkshaw" gained further popularity as a general 
term for a detective when the name was used for a character in a comic strip by 
American cartoonist Gus Mager. 






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