house detective

Example Sentences

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He’s got the look of a house detective.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 27, 2020

Another principal figure was the arrested Hilton Hotel house detective, 39-year-old Ed Murphy.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2012

I was asked more than once to leave the Plaza Hotel, ushered out by the house detective.

From New York Times • May 28, 2012

The booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have a house detective, but his duties are to intervene only when some crime has been committed against a guest or against the chateau.

From Rebels of the Red Planet by Fontenay, Charles Louis