### Clue: One type of police search means the end for Pinkie, perhaps (9)
### Answer: FINGERTIP 
 ### Explanation: Definition: One type of police search,the end for Pinkie, perhaps
 Double Defn: 1st: A thorough search by police at a crime scene, often literally; and 2nd The end of a finger, the little one being called a pinkie, from the Dutch. The surface is a reference to the main character, the criminal Pinkie Brown in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock.