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Definition of Hotel detective
1. Noun. A private detective employed by a hotel or retail store.
Generic synonyms: Operative, Pi, Private Detective, Private Eye, Private Investigator, Shamus, Sherlock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotel Detective
Literary usage of Hotel detective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1907)
"THE LONDON hotel detective Then there is the hotel itself to be considered.
It is to be protected from the expert« posing as men of business and ..."
2. The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"A man named "W , lately gained the advantage of a hotel detective in a rather
amusing manner. He was in the habit of stealing his meals, and was detected so ..."
3. American Law and Procedure by James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews (1910)
"A hotel detective started toward him and he walked toward what he believed to be
a side hall, but which the detective knew to be an open elevator shaft. ..."
4. The Girl and the Job by Helen Christene Hoerle, Florence B.. Saltzberg (1919)
"The store detective's work is invaluable, saving the company many dollars in the
course of a year. The hotel detective is another valuable aid to society. ..."
5. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"She is a ninny about money, just as the hotel detective is an idiot about
psychoanalysis, but we never feel that the drunken. ness has any significance ..."
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