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

Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that they add up to $10,000�blackmail.

From Time Magazine Archive

But on the evening of the third day the house detective tipped Joe off that his prey was leaving in the morning.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson