"I can tell you how this happens," said one black detective.

But when he - the black detective - told me why he'd come, I stopped laughing.

The black detective edged away from the chairs towards the door.

It took a while to locate the black detective, and when he came to the phone, he was out of breath.

She gives the black detectives an extremely hard time when they are only trying to help.

He couldn't have said anything which would have infuriated the black detectives more.

The two black detectives looked at one another.

The black detective suddenly shivered and took a step backward.

The black detective kept nodding, absorbing the information without reacting to it.

The black detective was Milo's occasional partner, but they hadn't worked together recently.