private eye

Example Sentences

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The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

The late, great Raymond Chandler and his private eye live on as potential IP for new books, video games, TV projects, graphic novels and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

The article focused on Robert Winnett, the British journalist poised to take over The Post’s newsroom in November, and described his links to a private eye who used unethical media practices to land big exclusives.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

“The New York Trilogy,” which included “City of Glass,” “Ghosts” and “The Locked Room,” was a postmodern detective saga in which names and identities blur and one protagonist is a private eye named Paul Auster.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

Every detective story started with the private eye or police detective taking a case, and Ophie already had that: What had happened to Clara?

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland