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Book Seeing Life Through Private Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas G. Martin
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2018-09-26
  • ISBN : 9781538122280
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Seeing Life Through Private Eyes written by Thomas G. Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades Thomas G. Martin has been the secret weapon of choice. Now America's PI has combined his life experiences, cautionary tales, and insider information into a valuable guide for the rest of us. Seeing Life Through Private Eyes is an invaluable resource for living smarter and safer in today's complicated world.

Book Baby Monkey  Private Eye

Download or read book Baby Monkey Private Eye written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick and debut children's book author David Serlin create a dazzling new format especially for young children! A New York Times Bestselling Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Parents Magazine Best Early Reader of the Year "A marvel." --The New York Times "Inventive... fabulously expressive..." --San Francisco Chronicle Who is Baby Monkey? He is a baby. He is a monkey. He has a job. He is Baby Monkey, Private Eye! Lost jewels? Missing pizza? Stolen spaceship? Baby Monkey can help... if he can put on his pants! Baby Monkey's adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic novel. With pithy text and over 120 black and white drawings accented with red, it is ideal for sharing aloud and for emerging readers.

Book Allan Pinkerton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Pinkerton Josephson
  • Publisher : Lerner Publications
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780822549239
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Allan Pinkerton written by Judith Pinkerton Josephson and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Original Private Eye.

Book Groucho Marx  Private Eye

Download or read book Groucho Marx Private Eye written by Ron Goulart and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groucho Marx made the transition from screen to paper in Ron Goulart's widely acclaimed first novel, Groucho Marx, Master Detective, where he debuted as a radio star-cum-private eye. Groucho and Frank aren't enjoying their latest costar, singing child prodigy Polly Pilgrim, a spoiled ingenue. When a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is found dead in his palatial home, and Polly's mother, the faded actress Frances London, is accused of his murder, Polly's request for Groucho and Frank to help prove her mother's innocence surprises them. She is convinced that Frances has been framed, and despite the mounting evidence against the washed-up perfromer, the pair takes on the case.

Book The Private Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bran Nicol
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2013-07-15
  • ISBN : 9781780231020
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Private Eye written by Bran Nicol and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade to Jake Gittes, private eyes have made for some of the most memorable characters in cinema. We often view these detectives as lone wolves who confront and try to make sense of a violent and chaotic modern world. Bran Nicol challenges this stereotype in The Private Eye and offers a fresh take on this iconic character and the film noir genre. Nicol traces the history of private eye movies from the influential film noirs of the 1940s to 1970s neonoir cinema, whose slow and brilliant decline gave way to the fading of detectives into movie mythology today. Analyzing a number of classic films—including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and The Long Goodbye—he reveals that while these movies are ostensibly thrillers, they are actually occupied by issues of work and love. The private eye is not a romantic hero, Nicol argues, but a figure who investigates the concealments of others at the expense of his own private life. Combining a lucid introduction to an underexplored tradition in movie history with a new approach to the detective in film, this book casts new light on the private worlds of the private eye.

Book The Private Eye

Download or read book The Private Eye written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital web comic compiled. Contains 10 issues plus a "Making of" special.

Book Behind the Private Eye

Download or read book Behind the Private Eye written by Chris Cooper and published by Chris Cooper. This book was released on 2005 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part true-crime novel, and part textbook. It was written specifically about surveillance, as conducted by private investigators. It's virtually an industry bible, and contains an incredible volume of highly detailed how-to techniques, for virtually every area of surveillance. It covers how to get information out of people under pretext, how to follow people on foot or by car. What to expect and even how to think as a PI, in order to get great results. The book covers everything including: Training courses and licensing Job preparation Conduct of surveillance operations Special techniques used by professionals Following on foot, car, bus, train, taxi Working in specialist areas (buildings, apartments, shopping centres etc) While an invaluable resource for any potential recruit to the PI industry, this book is also an excellent resource for experienced PI's as well. It lists a large number of web references and other details for information sources that can be used to track down elusive offenders. With almost 544 pages, this incredible encyclopaedic resource covers all the basic techniques, as well as some you have never thought of. How can a female PI urinate on a long vehicle stakeout? What web resource can be used to determine the likely gender of an obscure ethnic name which was listed in client intelligence? How do I identify someone? What role does human psychology play in surveillance operations? How can I find out if they are working? 10 pages explaining why and how things are seen, 10 issues to consider when parking a surveillance vehicle, 30 issues to consider in selecting a suitable surveillance vehicle, 9 methods to assist identification of an unknown unit number in a large block, . . .and much more Not only does this comprehensive training resource cover techniques, it is illustrated with a large number of real cases which Chris has conducted. These stories are an incredible insight to the PI world, and are both entertaining and fascinating. Each story details real-life implementation of techniques described in the book.

Book Thai Private Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warren Olson
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2008-12-01
  • ISBN : 981435807X
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Thai Private Eye written by Warren Olson and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume - the follow-up to Olson’s bestselling "Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye" - serves up more juicy portions of what goes on under the veneer in Thailand and includes stories deemed too hot to include in the first book for fear of repercussions. It also includes recent cases, where state-of-the-art surveillance devices and other advances in the dark arts of private investigation have made it easier to uncover dirt deep below the surface. This is a book that reads like exciting fiction, with one big difference: every story is true. Only the names and related identifying details have been changed to protect the innocent along with the guilty. These chronicles of a decade lived dangerously in the Land of Crooked Smiles will, by turns, entertain, shock, inflame and inform you.

Book The Legendary Detective

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Walton
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 022630826X
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book The Legendary Detective written by John Walton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were a multi-million dollar industry, hired out by many if not most American corporations, who needed services of surveillance, strike breaking, and labor espionage. Not only is John Walton's account the first sustained history of this industry, it is also the first book to trace the ways in which the private detective came to occupy a cherished place in popular imagination. Walton paints lively portraits of these mythical figures from Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant eccentric, to Sam Spade, the hard-boiled hero of Dashiell Hammett's best-selling tales. There's a great question lurking in here: how did pulp magazine editors shape the image of the hard-boiled private eye, and what sorts of interplay obtained between the actual records (agency files, memoirs) of these motley individuals in real life and the legend of the private detective in mass-market fiction? This history of the private eyes and this account of how the detective industry and the culture industry played off of each other is a first. Walton show us, in clean clear outline, the figure of the classical private eye, and he shows us further how the memory of this iconic figure was sustained in fiction, radio, film, literary societies, product promotions, adolescent entertainments, and a subculture of detective enthusiasts.

Book Private Eye Secret Spy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian D Withers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 9781914078811
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Private Eye Secret Spy written by Ian D Withers and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAN Withers rewrote the book on what it means to be a Private Investigator. He traversed the world recovering abducted children, gathered intelligence for left and right-wing regimes and was jailed over a British prime minister's bad bet. Across sixty years he chased down fraudsters, bugged leaders of international coups and cracked open assassination plots. He tracked the IRA's Hyde Park bomber with a bluffed phone call, located Jeremy Thorpe's illicit lover and put his life on the line to return snatched tug-of-love kids to desperate parents. Now, for the first time, Britain's most controversial agent-for-hire lifts the lid on an intense life in the darkest of shadows. Gripping, illuminating and unflinching, Private Eye, Secret Spy is the thrilling true story of a steely English gentleman's rise to the top of his game. "Ian Withers has walked the walk... a frank, honest and brave confession." Gary Murray, author of Enemies of the State.

Book Confessions of a Private Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Fulmer
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-18
  • ISBN : 9781979693127
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Confessions of a Private Eye written by Scott Fulmer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what it's really like to be a Private Investigator from one of the top Private Eyes in the country. Confessions of a Private Eye offers an accurate behind-the-scenes look at the real-life cases of celebrated Private Investigator and Super Sleuth, Scott B. Fulmer. In a thrilling private eye career spanning almost three decades, he has seen it all. Join Fulmer as he describes in breathtaking detail his investigations and daring challenges involving kidnapped children, missing diamonds and insurance scams. Discover how he busted a fake chiropractic clinic, recovered thousands of dollars of purloined tortillas and proved an injured stripper was not so injured after all. In the private eye world truth really is stranger than fiction. At the age of eight, Fulmer discovered the mysteries of Sherlock Holmes in his elementary school library and his career choice was set. His investigations have taken him from Texas to Utah and California to Washington, DC. From the streets of San Francisco to a secret cave in rural Pennsylvania where he began working for the U.S. government. Fulmer has unraveled intrigues, busted employee theft and even worked with F.B.I. His true-life cases have run the gamut from workers comp fraud and murder, to recovering runaways, human smuggling and cheating spouses. From placing hidden GPS trackers on vehicles, proving trademark infringement and even investigating members of the George Bush administration. Confessions of a Private Eye is Fulmer's spell-binding account, and your backstage pass to learning how real private investigators go about solving cases and catching the bad guys. Of course, all the names, locations and other identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of the innocent (and the guilty). Learn how Fulmer got his start in the private investigator business and the mistakes he made a long the way. His narrative is insightful and often poignant. Not every investigation has a happy ending. But through it all you'll learn about Fulmer's unique investigatory methods and his state-of-the-art equipment. Confessions of a Private Eye is a humorous, thorough and perceptive depiction of the mysterious private investigation world by one of the country's top private eyes.

Book Caleb Piper Private Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Tayleur
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780838845257
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Caleb Piper Private Eye written by Karen Tayleur and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balance of appealing nonfiction and fiction titles, focus on strategies and skills critical for reading comprehension, and nonfiction features such as indexes, glossaries, tables of contents, and captions.

Book Spygirl

Download or read book Spygirl written by Amy Gray and published by Villard. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her friends are making mad cash and getting massages at their dot-com jobs, Amy Gray quits her low-status publishing position to realize her girlhood dream of being a private investigator. Joining a small Manhattan agency, she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of “con men, lunatics, narcissists, polygamists, sociopaths, felons, petty thieves, and pathological liars”—a description almost as apt for the men in her social life as for her on-the-job subjects. Working with a gang of misfit colleagues (a former zookeeper, a one-time child star, an avant-garde philosopher, and other eccentrics), Amy discovers even more about herself as she detects uncanny parallels between her investigations and her tumultuous love life.

Book Hamster and Cheese  Book 1

Download or read book Hamster and Cheese Book 1 written by Colleen AF Venable and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a sandwich thief in Mr. Venezi's pet shop. Everyone is a suspect, from the chinchillas to the goldfish. Never fear! The world's fluffiest detective on the case: Sasspants, PI(G). By day, Sasspants is your average book-loving, gizmo-inventing guinea pig. By night she solves pet shop mysteries with the help of her sidekick, Hamisher the hamster. Our furry little heroes will stop at nothing to find the sandwich thief! This is the first book in the Guinea PIG, Pet Shop Private Eye series. "Absolutely adorable drawings, blended with witty dialogue in a way that makes this comic a perfect read for all ages . . . and Owly would like to add that 'little Hamisher and his drawings are equal to awesome.'"—Andy Runton, author of Owly "Move over Miss Marple, never mind the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, here's the real mistress of the whodunit. She's sharp. And she's furry. This one's a keeper."—Mark Siegel, illustrator of To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

Book Private Eye

Download or read book Private Eye written by Adam Macqueen and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating A-Z history written by Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen with a wealth of new material forming an in-depth, witty and sometimes critical appraisal of Britain's favourite satirical magazine. Featuring extensive exclusive interviews with the Eye's editors - Ian Hislop, Richard Ingrams and Christopher Booker - and a host of other key figures past and present, along with rare material and photographs featuring former contributors including Peter Cook, Auberon Waugh and Willie Rushton.

Book The Taste of Ashes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Browne
  • Publisher : Ultramarine Publishing
  • Release : 1988-09
  • ISBN : 9780939767137
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Taste of Ashes written by Howard Browne and published by Ultramarine Publishing. This book was released on 1988-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plot follows a stuttering, backfiring investigation into a blackmail scheme, punctuated by a number of deaths. The detective, Paul Pine, gradually pulls together all of the threads and knits them together, but with one thread left over.

Book The Life and Times of  Private Eye   1961 1971

Download or read book The Life and Times of Private Eye 1961 1971 written by Richard Ingrams and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: