Sleuth (1972 film) was considered unsuccessful in comparison to the original. Sleuth (1972 film) Sleuth is a 1972 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. The screenplay by playwright Anthony Shaffer was based on his 1970 Tony Award-winning play. Both Olivier and Caine were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances. This was Mankiewicz's final film. Critics gave the film overwhelmingly positive reviews, and would later note similarities between it and Caine's 1982 film "Deathtrap". Andrew Wyke, a successful writer of crime fiction, who lives in a large country manor house filled with elaborate
Sleuth hound bloodhound was somewhat larger, and had a greater variety of coat colours than the sleuth hound. Generally, references to the sleuth hound appear in a man-trailing context, whereas the bloodhound may appear either as a man-trailer or as a seeker of beasts in the hunting field. Probably from around 1700 any differences between the two types disappeared. "Bloodhound" becomes the usual term even in Scottish sources such as Sir Walter Scott. The Scottish term survives in its metaphorical use from the beginning of the nineteenth century as a detective, now usually shortened to sleuth. OF THE MERUELLUS NATURE OF SYNDRY