noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ private
▪
She hired a private ~ to follow her husband.
▪ undercover
▪ store
▪
The store ~ was keeping a close eye on a suspected shoplifter.
▪ police
▪ amateur
▪ fictional
▪
Sherlock Holmes was Conan Doyle's fictional ~.
▪ homicide ( AmE )
▪ hard-boiled
▪ lead ( AmE )
▪
Thomson was the lead ~ in the Ramsay case.
VERB + DETECTIVE
▪ hire
DETECTIVE + VERB
▪ investigate sth
▪
~s investigating the case
DETECTIVE + NOUN
▪ agency
▪ work
▪
We are going to have to do some ~ work on this.
▪ fiction , novel , series , show ( esp. AmE ), story
▪ hero