The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

by Robert Galbraith

a flat-faced middle-aged oriental woman

EXCUSE me?

“I’m a detective,” he said. Then he remembered that Eric Wardle had described her English as “crap.” “Like a policeman?” he ventured. “Ah. Police.”

The word for detective in Polish is phonetically identical to the word in English.