detective
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detective englanniksi
(senseid) A officer tasked with collecting evidence and information order to solve a crime; an investigator.
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{{quote-book|en|year=1928|author=Lawrence R. Bourne
A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
(RQ:Doyle Study in Scarlet) (w) remarked calmly. (..) "Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to someone straight|set them straight. There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.(nb..)"
2013 March 25, (w), "Long Way Home" in ''(w)'':
- Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows. (w), (w), (w), (w): they come from every class and corner of the country. There’s even (w)'s (w), a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in (w) Shrewsbury. No surveillance cameras, no fingerprints, not even a telephone, and still he cracked every case that came his way.
Employed in detecting.
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work of detective fiction, such as a detective novel, film, or series
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