Now understand, I'm not trying to be offensive, but it seems a little unusual for a private detective also to be an authority on antique firearms.
He hastily shifted from the attempt to identify his business with the label, "private detective agency.
Or, she may think that having a private detective called in may throw a scare into somebody.
Any doubt he had was dissipated when he saw Gilbert enter the building in which were situated the offices of Hankey's Private Detective Agency.
He had to content himself with putting a private detective on the trail of James Russell, and awaiting results.
We found that this man had recently left Stepney, and I have employed a private detective to hunt him down.
Unless the police achieve something soon, I shall get a private detective.
Or, and this troubled Prescott, unless something was discovered soon, the impulsive and impatient Mrs Lindsay would employ a private detective.
A private detective is bad enough--but a girl one!
Now there is one thing more I very much wish, for reasons which no doubt you will know in good time, to see or hear the report of Mr. Jerry Belknap, private detective.
Jerry Belknap, private detective, followed close behind her, and himself closed the door carefully.
How long he had been a listener he alone could tell; but there stood Mr. Jerry Belknap, private detective, one hand resting on the handle of the closed door, the other holding an open note book.
Who should get into the box but Reginald Townsend's Corsican brother, Jack Haines's private detective, who had told me that his name was Stewart Trevannion.
I believe, my dear Reginald, that I informed you on Monday that I am a private detective on a considerable scale.
In other words, I am a private detective, on, I think I may say, a considerable scale.
A private detective may, and usually does, become possessed of information even more valuable to the person who is being watched than to the person to whom he owes his allegiance.
A private detective, by the same authority, is one "engaged unofficially in obtaining secret information for or guarding the private interests of those who employ him.
The neighbour in response murmured the words "private detective" and Rudd was relieved.
There was a man on board that every one said was a private detective.
The man we want is on board this ship, but being only a private detective, I don't possess a warrant for his arrest.
I went first to the police, and then engaged a private detective agency to look into the matter.
But it is the first time, I think, that anyone has employed a private detective.
And I have also engaged a private detective," added Forrester.
My occupation is that of private detective in London, but if you ask any policeman in Paris who Valmont was he will likely be able to tell you, unless he is a recent recruit.
When I began to succeed as a private detective in London, and had accumulated money enough for my project, I determined not to be hampered by this unexplainable softness of the English toward an accused person.
I am a private detective, with an office in London.
The voice was Wheeler's, like myself a private detective, with whom I had worked on two or three cases.
Say, what do you know about a lot of stuck-up people passing up a man cold, just because they've found out some way that he's a private detective?
But you're a private detective, and at the risk of wounding your feelings I'm going to repeat something which you probably realise already, and that is that people at large don't particularly fancy a person of your calling in life.
Before the desk in the station house this latter person said he was named Hartigan--Charles Edward Hartigan, a private detective by occupation; and he repeated his account of the robbery, with amplifications.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private detective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
