A detective who wears civilian clothes on duty

Usage examples of plainclothesman.

As he stood in among the trees and watched, Dougherty and the other plainclothesman reached into the Ford and took out one of the suitcases and set it down on the ground next to the car.

I called Plainclothesman Johnson, Saul Klein, and Legate Kawaguchi, in that order.

With looks of unspeakable resentment, the two plainclothesmen climbed into the rear.

Social relations had not improved when two plainclothesmen at last came into the foyer.

Hoddan finished his breakfast, and the bright and watchful new plainclothesmen were very much on the alert outside.

The ostentatiously loafing plainclothesmen could look in and see the waiting parcels loaded on them.

The plainclothesmen would look after the pickpockets who selected that hour to get busy.

Have uniformed chaps concentrated in Piccadilly Circus, and plainclothesmen in Soho.

Yeah, sure enough, my guy emerged, flanked by two plainclothesmen airport security?

Two plainclothesmen and three more uniformed officers were onto them before the constable was brought down.

Ryan saw the two Seventh Squad plainclothesmen in the street about twenty yards away, and beyond them a squad car with its flashers spinning blocking the intersection and the cops getting out, hurrying this way.

It was parked at the curb on the corner of Hyde and Pacific, an ordinary street cruiser with engine idling, two uniformed men in front and two plainclothesmen in the rear.

It was not pulling over to the side, it was not obeying the plainclothesmen, it was not delivering Dortmunder into their clutches.

There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.

A plainclothesman with his coat off and his hog's leg looking like a fire plug against his ribs took one eye off his evening paper, bonged a spittoon ten feet away from him, yawned, and said the Chief's office was upstairs at the back.