Hawkshaw
Hawkshaw noun - A person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons.
Usage example: the firm hired a hawkshaw to find out who was fencing stock from their warehouse
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Sherlock
Sherlock noun - A person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons.
Usage example: one of literature's most eccentric sherlocks, Nero Wolfe manages to solve mysteries without so much as leaving the confines of his own home
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- cop and hawkshaw
- cop and sherlock
- operative and hawkshaw
- operative and sherlock
- investigator and hawkshaw
- investigator and sherlock
- detective and hawkshaw
- detective and sherlock
- gumshoe and hawkshaw
- gumshoe and sherlock
- sleuthhound and hawkshaw
- sleuthhound and sherlock
- dick and hawkshaw
- dick and sherlock
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- Hy Eisman drew the strip until 2006, being run weekly in reprints to this day.The Sunday "topper" for Dirks was Hawkshaw the Detective (drawn by Gus Mager), a parody of Sherlock Holmes with monkeys while the Knerr strip had Dinglehoofer Und His Dog Adolph.
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