flatfoots

There was a reason they used to be called flatfoots.

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

There was a reason they used to be called flatfoots.

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

I buzzed for the flatfoots to come in and escort her out.

365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

Now I'm picturing your wife in a trenchcoat with the brim of her fedora pulled down, shielding her jaded eyes from the rain and biting salty air of Gotham Harbor, where a floater has just been pulled from the foul, foamy water by the local flatfoots.

Mrs. Arbogast Regrets... MIRRORS Arbogast 2009

Abe Burrows's Runyon-based book is a domesticated "Threepenny Opera," a dream demimonde of goodly hoods who sling slang rather than guns, slapstick flatfoots, nightclub floozies, high rollers and Holy Rollers.

What Becomes A Legend? 2008

The Web flatfoots his way through the whole story like this, his brow eternally glistening with flop sweat, his stomach clenched in fear of his nagging, shrewish wife, Rosie.

Archive 2007-07-01 Brian Hughes 2007

The Web flatfoots his way through the whole story like this, his brow eternally glistening with flop sweat, his stomach clenched in fear of his nagging, shrewish wife, Rosie.

The Worst Spider-Marriage in Comics Brian Hughes 2007

You stumbled into something far more vital to the interests of the United States than a bunch of dumb flatfoots, believe me.

Money, Money, Money McBain, Ed, 1926- 2001

They're a simple pair of flatfoots investigating a murder.

Money, Money, Money McBain, Ed, 1926- 2001

So, out go the Phoebus flatfoots, looking for the snatched Byron.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978