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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to detective:   (225 results)

Often used in the same context:
cop, gumshoe, investigator, police, lawman, sleuth, sergeant, patrolman, bounty hunter, policewoman, policeman, serial killer, philip marlowe, lieutenant, constable, criminalist, officers, prosecutor, shamus, narc, criminalistics, whodunits, gangster, safecracker, mobster, trooper, sargeant, law enforcement, sheriff, polygrapher, hitcher, cryptologist, patrolwoman, dets, inspector maigret, criminologist, serial murderer, forensic, homicide, crime, private investigator, firefighter, medical examiner, bloodhound, flying squad, informant, ghostbuster, prostitute, kidnapper, prosector, cornute, pickpocket, columbo, suspect, cat burglar, sherrif, murderer, corporal, dispatcher, inspector, thief, assassin, symbologist, profiler, burglar, bartender, robber, cryptograms, dashiell hammett, informer, cabbie, fireman, paranormal, policer, odontologist, csis, handwriting expert, rapist, colonel, drifter, pill pusher, newspaperman, wheelman, marshal, sherlocks, cruciverbalist, eliot ness, maigret, poirot, lapd, spenser, tipster, interrogator, con artist, perp, film noir, constabulary, abductor, canine, psychiatrist, hoodlum, detectives, chef, electrician, doctor, cameraman, jockey, boxer, cooks, drummer, hairdresser, carpenter, chauffeur, cook, dressmaker, golfer, golfers, lawyer, midwife, historian, grandfather, patron, critic, journalist, attest, hamilton, scott, comedian, hardboiled, pornographic, trashy, travel, courtesy, fiction, hume, muckraking, sensationalist, spy

More specific:
dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, operative, pi, plainclothesman, private detective, private eye, private investigator, sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhound

Appears in the definition of:
agatha christie, chandler, chesterton, christie, collins, commissaire maigret, dame agatha mary clarissa christie, dashiell hammett, detective novel, dick, diligent, dorothy l. sayers, dorothy leigh sayers, dorothy sayers, emile gaboriau, erle stanley gardner, father brown, frank morrison spillane, g. k. chesterton, gaboriau, gardner, georges joseph christian simenon, georges simenon, gilbert keith chesterton, gumshoe, hammett, hawkshaw, holmes, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, inspector maigret, john marquand, john philip marquand, lift, marlowe, marquand, marsh, mystery novel, new scotland yard, ngaio marsh, operative, perry mason, philip marlowe, pi, plainclothesman, private detective, private eye, private investigator, raymond chandler, raymond thornton chandler, s. s. van dine, samuel dashiell hammett, sayers, scotland yard, shamus, sherlock, sherlock holmes, simenon, sleuth, sleuthhound, spillane, store detective, wilkie collins, willard huntington wright, william wilkie collins, wright

More general:
investigator, officer, policeman, police officer

Synonyms:
investigator, police detective, tec

Also try:
— Nouns for detective: sergeant, stories, inspector, fiction, work, novel, story, smith, mallory, novels, comics, more...

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