Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes". Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.
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Famous quotes containing the word detective:
“Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions. But detectives have souls the same as anyone else.... You know, Mrs. Beragon, being a detective is like, well, like making an automobile. You just take all the pieces and put them together one by one. First thing you know you’ve got an automobile. Or a murderer.”
—Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)