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
In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask, a revolver, in the trunk of one Eric Nelson, British, in the cubicle overhead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Hotels employ a house detective to look after its morals.
From Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Palmer, Mary E.