Taking the evidence piece by piece, putting it all together in a neat pattern, sneaking in an odd bit I had on my hip here and there, analyzing the motives and characters and making them out to be quite different from what anybody--or I myself for that matter--thought them to be up to this golden moment--and finally making a sort of world-weary pounce on the least promising suspect.
He lifted his eyes and almost smiled! Nidech put on a one-piece wet suit and strapped a diver's knife onto her ankle and an underwater watch to her wrist.