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private eye

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His college classmate, Bill Marshall, is a South Florida private eye.

Johnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in Tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe.

The hero is Lucas Spero, a veteran of the wars in the Middle East and a tough guy private eye.

And Cormoran Strike is a private eye whose company I would share again no matter whose name is on the dust jacket.

His widow gave the private eye a box full of tapes marked “JACKSON” that her husband had been working on.

I felt like flashing a twenty at him like a private eye did in the old tough-books, but I knew it wouldn't work.

Morays professions to Elizabeth may have been a blind, but his letters for Marys private eye have a more genuine air.

In his pocket was a great bunch of newspaper clippings, intended for the private eye of the new Mrs. De Foe's one-time secretary.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to private eye, such as: inquiry agent, private detective, private dick, private investigator, p.i., and detective.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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