under-detective

Updated: May 6, 2025

There's that old buffer you found on the lawn," and he pointed without pretence of reverence at the big black body with the yellow head. "We've found out who he is, anyhow." "Indeed!" cried the astonished doctor, "and who is he?" "His name was Arnold Becker," said the under-detective, "though he went by many aliases.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - The Innocence of Father Brown