police-inspector

Erlendur Sveinsson, the Icelandic police-inspector at the center of Arnaldur Indridason's mesmerizing

A Season for Sleuthing 2007

This discovery, at any rate, justified the doubts of the police-inspector.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

But she glanced at the vest with the care of a police-inspector and found a second hair twisted around a second button; then she saw a third; and turning pale and trembling somewhat, she exclaimed: “Oh, some woman has left hairs around all your buttons.”

Bel Ami 2003

Mr. Mitchell nodded acquiescence in the words of the police-inspector.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

_Nadzirátel_, or police-inspector of the quarter -- a gentleman whose appearance is, if possible, more disagreeable to the poor than the face of a petitioner is to the rich.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Two or three minutes later a police-inspector (polizeirat) arrived and told Krestinsky that the police had THE LAST PERIOD OF STRUGGLE WITHIN THE PARTY actually received information about an attempt on my life, and had taken extraordinary protective measures.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

I read the police-inspector scene to my little girl just to see what she would get out of it.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

But the police-inspector — Inspector Sugg, they called him, from the Yard — he was very sharp with her, poor girl.

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

But the police-inspector — Inspector Sugg, they called him, from the Yard — he was very sharp with her, poor girl.

Whose Body Sayers, Dorothy L. 1923

Who first brought it on the tapis no one subsequently could say; but in a moment the whole story of the young girl's engagement to Mr. Athol, in defiance of her aunt's wishes, the quarrel of the night before, and the final disappearance of both young people from the house during the small hours of the morning, was dragged from the four unwilling witnesses by the able police-inspector.

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912