A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
Employed in detecting.
An undercover informer.
One who ropes goods; a packer.
Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”)
Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.