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inquiry agent

n. a private detective

Usage examples of "inquiry agent".

He may have been a swindler or a confidence trickster or a picker-up of unconsidered trifles or a private inquiry agent.

For the determination of the inquiry agent and the private eye to be the harbinger of justice and, ultimately, punishment, is of a very special kind and has resulted in a type of story all its own within the crime genre that holds a great attraction for large numbers of readers.

Captain Auson had turned pale upon learning that an inquiry agent from said company would be arriving soon to investigate.

Our friend can have a spell at being an inquiry agent-in the sunshine too.

Slattin has a rotten reputation--even for a private inquiry agent.

Blunt, that you are a private inquiry agent, and one who hustles things through at a great rate?

The inquiry agent and his granddaughter wished him luck and hurried off into the downpour with Alfie trotting between them, seeking shelter from the rising storm.