checkroom

• “At the front entrance of the sale there was even a checkroom not for coats but for plants already picked but not yet paid for, so that people could keep shopping without fear they'd be filched.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Two Brooklyn Perennials

• “I led Courtney down the stairs and along the corridor, passing the hotel laundry, the vault, and the baggage checkroom.”

  Simon & Schuster: Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne

• “When my daughter and some of her friends had their purses stolen from the checkroom of a teenage nightclub and the owners refused to admit it was their responsibility, I was the one who supplied a short, boyish-looking 21-year-old with a fake i.d. listing him as 16 so that the place could lose its liquor license.”

  The Mozart Code

• “Plywood cutouts of more clowns greeted me: one pointed the way to the checkroom, another to a door marked RESTROOMS; a third had a mechanical arm that semaphored toward the club proper.”

  The Shape of Dread

• “Enthusiasm undimmed, he grabbed a sword from the checkroom and staggered off into the night.”

  Hokas Pokas

• “The group tossed their weapons a-clatter toward the checkroom, for the landlord's family to pick up.”

  Hokas Pokas

• “Lapointe eventually found somewhere to park the car, and he followed Maigret to the luggage checkroom.”

  Maigret and the Headless Corpse

• “Six murderers out of ten, if they have anything incriminating to get rid of, deposit it in the luggage checkroom of a railway station.”

  Maigret and the Headless Corpse

• “It was at the checkroom of Gare du Nord that François Lagrange had deposited the trunk containing the body of the Deputy.”

  Maigret's Revolver

• “I realized in a flash that there would be a police investigation -- and the minute that checkroom stub was found, the detectives would have followed it up.”

  Midnight

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