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| detective story |
a fictional account of how a crime, usu. a murder, is solved by an amateur or professional detective. |
| dick |
(slang) a detective. [1/3 definitions] |
| plainclothesman |
a policeman, esp. a detective who wears civilian clothes while on duty. |
| private eye |
(informal) a private detective. |
| private investigator |
a person whose job is to investigate criminal or secret activity at the request of paying clients; private detective. |
| Scotland Yard |
the metropolitan police force of London, esp. the detective branch. [1/2 definitions] |
| Sherlock Holmes |
a fictional detective hero in many late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century short stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is described as having extraordinary powers of observation and deduction. [1/2 definitions] |
| sleuth |
a detective. [2 definitions] |
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