Rockfordesque
English
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editRockfordesque (comparative more Rockfordesque, superlative most Rockfordesque)
- Reminiscent of the television series The Rockford Files or its main character, a laid-back blue-collar private investigator.
- 1990, Robert J. Thompson, Adventures on prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell., Greenwood Publishing Group:
- Rockfordesque Nick Ryder (Joe Penny) insists that he would rather use hunches than statistics, that he cannot wear a coat and tie to work, and that if he saw the corporate atmosphere at TriCor, "Sam Spade would puke."
- 2001, February 16. Allan Johnson, "Tuning In, Tuning Out", The Chicago Tribune.
- His latest is "The Tin Collectors" (St. Martin's Press, $24.95), about a Rockfordesque detective at the center of an Internal Affairs investigation that becomes much more.
- 2009. Kelli Jae Baeli, Armchair Detective, Lesbian Literati Press.
- I vaulted to the hood of the Olds' in true Rockfordesque style, and rolled over, falling off the other side, landing hard upon the pavement.