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
The booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither the house detective nor the plain-clothes man who had been delegated to trail Cheney could add anything of interest to the little that Randall already knew.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson
