house detective

Example Sentences

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He’s got the look of a house detective.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 27, 2020

Another principal figure was the arrested Hilton Hotel house detective, 39-year-old Ed Murphy.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2012

I was asked more than once to leave the Plaza Hotel, ushered out by the house detective.

From New York Times • May 28, 2012

"Texas," however, stopped to call on the house detective.

From Time Magazine Archive

I suspect that he was a "plant," or a plain-clothes house detective, placed there on purpose to deceive me.

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.