How to properly play Detective?

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Has anyone had success properly playing a detective on main? Does anyone have any stories of actual sleuthing and figuring things out? I feel like the detective has so much potential for thematic rounds and he has so many cool toys to play with. But I struggle to make it work. The rounds move too quickly to be able to figure anything out. What're you meant to do on blob, nuke, and wizard rounds? How are you meant to play effectively in a non valid hunting way? Are there any (in)famous detective players?

Detective is my favourite bit of sec to play, but you have to be willing to RP a little (I play on Main).

One of my favourite detective rounds, someone had bombed medbay with a beaker bomb. It had one set of fingerprints on it, so it seemed like a one and done case. The guy was a scientist so me and another sec went out to arrest him. However instead of just stunning him and shoving him in the brig for a few minutes, I decided to interrogate him. He denied all charges saying he had just seen the beaker and picked it up before running away. He said that another scientist had made it and armed it. So we grabbed the other one and interrogated him. He said that he had made the bomb and given it to the first scientist and that he had used it. So one of them was lying! Me and the other sec went around medbay trying to find more clues. Just then a janitor piped up and said that he had witnessed it. He said that he'd been at the explosion and the beaker had been thrown at the first scientist! He'd then cleaned up after the explosion (probably accidently removing the thrower prints). It was really satisfying to solve even a little mystery. 

For blob, and wizard rounds your investigative abilities don't really apply but you can serve similar to a normal sec without the arrests, so helping people, fighting the blob, getting drunk with the polymorphed captain, valid hunting Cluwnes, that sort of thing. Nukies interrupt a lot of jobs, but tracking an infil is really fun.

I guess my tips are to find one case/person and focus on it/them. The round moves too fast for you to really do any in-depth investigation if you try and spread out your efforts. Also too avoid valid hunting don't use your gun outside of self defence and not to make arrests, Its fun to cite damning evidence against someone, only for them to whip out a weapon and for you to have a shoot off, but its also fun to have them protest and to interrogate them. Also you have a ticketing machine for non-serious offences, so uncover the mystery of who killed Stir Stir and hit em with a fine for unlicensed executions. Or take bribes to cover up who destroyed the cap's bonsai.

Also pro-puffs best cigarettes and being drunk only improves your investigating abilities.