shamus in English

noun
1
a private detective.
Chandler, to whom pulp fiction had come late in life, had written his first Marlowe novel, ‘The Big Sleep, ‘in 1939, followed by six more novels about the L.A. shamus .
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1. Very tricky business being a private shamus.

2. But then I asked myself: Are we serving Shamus as well as he was serving us?

3. You know, a while back—a while back I met a young man named Shamus in a V.

4. Coben is the first author to win all three literary awards: the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award.

5. A while back, I met a young man named Shamus at the VFW Hall in East Molne, Illinois.

6. Bros is the new project from Ewan and Shamus Currie, front man and keyboardist, respectively, for platinum-selling Canadian …

7. Relax. The man says relax. I've got a fictional character stashed in a hotel room, and I think my wife is having me tailed by a private shamus.