When a major crime occurred, city governments often turned to private-detective agencies rather than local police or weak and incompetent federal agencies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet "The Masked War" captures better than any historian 's account the self-promotion and Red-baiting of the private-detective industry. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Robert B. Parker's "Painted Ladies" (Putnam, 291 pages, $26.95) finds the past shaping the present in a real-life way: This title, the latest in the long-running series featuring the Boston private-detective Spenser, was written before the prolific Mr. Parker's death in January. ❋ Tom Nolan (2010)
Mr. Waugh started out writing private-detective mysteries before he tried his hand at writing a novel that focused on the details of an unfolding police investigation. ❋ Maxine (2008)
Written in the wake of the same author's hard-boiled 1930 private-detective classic, 'The Maltese Falcon,' and his bleak 1931 thriller of civic corruption, 'The Glass Key,' the amusing and flippant-seeming 'The Thin Man' in which almost all violence occurs offstage took readers by surprise in 1934. ❋ Bill Crider (2009)
I put on a tie, loosened it at the collar, and undid the top button to give myself a rumpled, world-weary private-detective look, and I threw on my gray-tweed Brooks Brothers sport coat, since there was a slight chill in the air. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2009)
Written in the wake of the same author's hard-boiled 1930 private-detective classic, "The Maltese Falcon," and his bleak 1931 thriller of civic corruption, "The Glass Key," the amusing and flippant-seeming "The Thin Man" (in which almost all violence occurs offstage) took readers by surprise in 1934. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Soon thereafter, they brought in Bernd Bühner, a former German Army security officer who runs a private-detective agency, the report says. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr. Schenz had been suspended in May pending completion of the investigation into whether private-detective firms hired by the bank violated privacy laws. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Wealthy friends of Nicole Simpson, for instance, have hired a private-detective agency to look for spousal-abuse evidence and "18 other angles," says Pete Peterson, the agency's owner. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some of the accused are former cops, charged with running a crooked private-detective agency, tapping telephones and hacking into computers, sometimes with criminal intent. ❋ Dunne, Dominick (2006)
It's the first book in a new series about a private-detective agency run by a man named Weiss. ❋ Bill Crider (2004)
Yard and the private-detective agencies, nothing had been seen or heard of her. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)
In a few days the news leaked out that "M.S.," as Malcolm Sage was called by the staff, was to start, a private-detective agency. ❋ Herbert George Jenkins (1899)
Storri the next day went to New York, and immediately on arrival at that hotel which he designed to honor with his custom he sprang into a hansom, and within ten minutes was at a private-detective agency, being the one whereat he aforetime procured those spies to set about the ❋ Alfred Henry Lewis (1885)
The Toronto born and raised Colantoni is no stranger to U.S. prime-time success, having played fashion photographer Elliot DiMauro for seven seasons - 149 episodes in all - on the long-running NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me, as well as Kristen Bell's private-detective dad in the late, still lamented cult hit, Veronica Mars. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Chubby, dance-obsessed private-detective Rajesh Bharti and his motley band of helpers tackle poisonings, adultery and the occasional murder on the frenzied streets of Kolkata. ❋ By BROOKS BARNES (2010)