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:
“You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
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