tried-and-proved

Updated: May 15, 2025

Ah! in all these great criminal operations there is nothing like sticking to the old, well-worn, tried-and-proved tricks of the trade! they are like well-oiled, well-practised machinery. And now we come back to the real, great, anxious question Who did it? And there, Allerdyke, we are at present only at present, mind! up against a very big, blank wall."

J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher - The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation