Crossword Clue:

a detective

Answer	Crossword Clue
LEAD	Clue for a detective
CLUE	Help for a detective
LEAD	What a detective follows

LEAD	Aid for a detective
CHARLIECHAN	Detective with a large family
TAILGATE	Scandal that implicates a detective?
SCENARIO	What a detective tries to reconstruct
TRYST	What a private detective might photograph
TRENCHCOAT	Many a detective film cover-up
CHAN	Detective with a number one son
DAME	Woman in a hard-boiled detective story

SFPD	Employer of Detective Lindsay Boxer in a series of James Patterson novels
AGENT	Detective
SLEUTH	Detective
LOCATOR	Successful detective
CASES	Detective work
MATT	Detective Houston
MIKEHAMMER	Spillane detective
NERO	Detective ... Wolfe

SAMSPADE	Fictional detective
OPERATIVE	Private detective
CHAN	Classic detective
MARPLE	Christie detective
CASE	Detective work
ALLAN	Detective Pinkerton
POIROT	Mustachioed detective
NERO	Detective Wolfe

SNOOP	Private detective
LECOQ	Gaboriau detective
SNOOP	Play detective
TAIL	Following detective
CHAN	Detective Charlie
NARC	Government detective
ARSENE	Detective Lupin
FERRET	Detective sort

MOTO	Fictional detective
PHILO	Detective Vance
MYSTERIES	Detective stories
SAM	Detective Spade
NED	Hammett detective Beaumont