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Detective agency

noun

An agency that makes inquiries for its clients.

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"Detective agency" Quotes from Famous Books

... foresight to suggest that the job should be undertaken by the very detective agency he had employed to shadow young Scoville and also to keep an eye on Maud. Naturally, she was never to know the truth about the matter. She was to believe that her father came up with a huge sum in the shape of ransom, no questions ...

— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... you're ready to get off," he said. "You know this hyperspace freighter, the Andromeda? Some private group in Storisende has chartered her. She's loading supplies now. I have a private detective agency, Barton-Massarra, trying to find out where's she's going. I think you'd better get this ship off, ...

— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper

... day on which Sir Thomas Blunt wrote and dispatched his letter to Wragge's Detective Agency, Jimmy Pitt chanced to ...

— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

... sneered Zada. She had wasted a hundred dollars on him to find this out, and two hundred and fifty on Mrs. Cheever to find out that she was intensely respectable. That was bitter news to Zada. She canceled her business with her detective agency. And they called in the shadows that haunted ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... Diggs. Then he let the truth slip out. "He says he is from a detective agency, but I couldn't catch the ...

— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon

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