Converse of object

• bumble: He ran away from home, and created a new identity working as an assistant for bumbling detective Kuruma Jo.

• hire: Equipment is available at a fraction of the cost of hiring a Private detective which can give you all the evidence that you need!

• urge: Alan urges the detective to follow up certain leads he perceives.

• assign: Inspector Frederick George Abberline was the Scotland Yard detective assigned to lead the on-the-ground investigation into the ' Ripper ' murders.

Adjective modifier

• fictional: Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective in Arthur Conan Doyle's books, was a regular cocaine user.

• existential: Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life: Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of existential detectives.

• amateur: He had just left the room in which I sat with Basil Grant and his brother Rupert, the voluble amateur detective.

• retired: Stewart plays a retired police detective who becomes swept up in a complex crime and falls for the wrong woman.

• budding: A crime scene, as any budding detective might inform you, must be secured lest the DNA and forensic evidence be contaminated.

• psychic: The other program that I featured in dealt with psychic detectives.

Modifies a noun

• sergeant: The unit will consist of a detective sergeant who will have four detective constables working under him.

• fiction: Slim, well crafted detective fiction you can polish off in a few hours.

• constable: Mr Hunt also faces two charges of making threats to kill a detective constable on September 29.

• superintendent: He was promoted sergeant after four years and served in every rank in CID up to and including detective superintendent.

• novel: A detective novel, really, with a fair amount of careful detail.

• inspector: The second case involved a detective inspector with severe visual impairment who had been unsuccessful at a previous assessment center.

Noun used with modifier

• homicide: In Kiss the Girls: Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross is thrust into a case he will never forget.

• consulting: Stamford Holmes is a reluctant consulting detective in a modern age where the crimes are mundane, not offering challenge.

• pulp: This novel is essentially a ripping yarn yet it somehow stands apart from typical pulp detective writing.

• police: Lea Moore is a police detective in Oakland, California.