MDDM23: A Certain Well-Known Gentleman-Detective ...

[Dave Monroe]

   "I was visited one day by a certain well-known
Gentleman-Detective of the Time,-- let us call him
Herve du T.,--" (M&D, Ch. 37, p. 372)

Main Entry: detective
Function: noun
Date: 1850
: one employed or engaged in detecting lawbreakers or
in getting information that is not readily or publicly
accessible

Herve du T. = Heavy Duty? 

   "'Of course.  Here is your small Fee,-- you see
this Pistol?  I will not fire it into your head, eh?'"
(M&D, Ch. 37, p. 375)

And "Detective" italicized in the text no doubt to
indicate its still-foreign (to English, in the
late-eighteenth century) status ...

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