Noble hires Italian detectives for dealing with top-level assassination (9)

I believe the answer is:

regicidal

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(Other definitions for regicidal that I've seen before include "top-level murder" , "like Macbeth?" , "taking out ruler?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.

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