All 8 Uses

inquiry
in
The Chrysalids
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Inquiries had revealed several persons who had a grudge against him, but none with a strong enough motive for murder, nor any likely suspect who could not convincingly account for himself at the time when Alan must have been killed.†
Chpt 10

inquiries = questions or investigations
On the other hand, Joe is a fellow that the inspector has used before now when he wants a few inquiries made on the quiet.†
Chpt 11
It's part of the inspector's job to keep watch and call an inquiry if the information he gets seems to warrant it.'†
Chpt 11 *

inquiry = questioning or investigating
But these inquiries can't have anything to do with Alan.†
Chpt 11

inquiries = questions or investigations
'There's one thing,' he went on, 'they can't know much, or they'd have called an inquiry already, and they'll have to be pretty damn sure of themselves before they do call one.†
Chpt 11

inquiry = questioning or investigating
If it does come to an inquiry we ought to be able to bluff it out by acting simple, as we decided.†
Chpt 11
Our misfortune lay in our receiving the information regarding the inquiries when we did, and not two or three days earlier.... THE discussion, and Michael's advice, made the threat of discovery seem both more real and more imminent than it had been when I talked to Uncle Axel earlier in the evening.†
Chpt 11

inquiries = questions or investigations
Petra put out the inquiry, in her forceful way.†
Chpt 17

inquiry = questioning or investigating

Definitions:

(1) (inquiry)
a question or investigation -- especially one meant to gather information or find out the truth
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)