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n. (private detective English)
Usage examples of "private detectives".
Pat Birmingham and Wayne Mackeson relied on their own investigators, private detectives Harold Nash and Robin Karnes, who were most experienced in winnowing out the truth.
The police thus get the credit of many arrests in difficult cases where all the work has been done by private detectives, and it is good business for the latter to let them know it.
The private detectives suspected her at first, as you do, and she was watched in and out of my office for weeks.
Of Sam Spade as a character, Dashiell Hammett confessed that he had no particular prototype: `He is idealised in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I have worked with would like to have been.
Tell Frank, the janitor, that I'm working on a hot case and that there are some private detectives trying to shadow me.
I hinted broadly at seeking fingerprints which might lead to the identity of one who had entered the house unknown to the Godwins, and placed a document where private detectives would subsequently find it under suspicious circumstances.
Her access to Bill Clinton's donors, political consultants, policy staff, image-makers, and even private detectives gave her a critical head start in the campaign.
From time to time, badges were visible on the other men, an indication that they were all private detectives of the Coastal Agency.
The most likely explanation was that Woltz had set private detectives on his trail to get all possible information.
You don't make major-general without developing an army mind in the process and the army mind sees the world as a neat, orderly and regimented place with no place at all in it for private detectives.
We know how to hire private detectives and they know how to check records and verify old rumors.