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hotel detective

NOUN
house detective
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She also played a double-crossing hotel detective inspector as well as a member of a wedding party singing purposefully off key lyrics, inspired by “Espresso,” to expose bad behavior at the bachelorette party.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024

The racket attracts the hotel detective, who reminds the revelers, "You're all grown-up men here."

From Time Magazine Archive

Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like most starving young beginners, Dunn supported himself with odd jobs, including one as a sports rewrite man on a daily paper, another as a hotel detective.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Are you all right in here?" he asked, and then observing the two white-robed figures he doffed the conventional derby hat without which no professional hotel detective would seem natural.

From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles