"They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.

"I am employed by a private inquiry agency."

After this scandal he changed his name and set up the inquiry agency, which is fronted by an ex-Scotland Yard policeman.

Mr Carlyle is a private investigator, running a private inquiry agency concerned mainly with divorce and defalcation.

It had seemed to him the merest prudence that a detective from a private inquiry agency should be installed at the castle while the house was full.

The Shannons might be accustomed to the harshness of life in Whitechapel, where they kept their inquiry agency, but they were good and decent people, nonetheless.

This gentleman," Tanglewood nodded to Skeeter, "is a Pinkerton Agent, from America, one of the Yanks' best private inquiry agencies."

The Japan Transport Safety Board began on October 1, 2008 as a merger between the Japan Marine Accident Inquiry Agency (JMAIA) and the ARAIC.