gumshoe

How To Use gumshoe In A Sentence

• He wasn't the gumshoe, the private eye, the detective of the forties in the black and white noir.
• He was the new gumshoe - and Hollywood wasn't quite ready for him.
• The classic gumshoe archetype—the hard-drinking, jaded loner with emotional baggage and shrewd instincts—didn't change. The (Really) Long Goodbye
• First, an online gumshoe would go to the company that hosts the forum where a message appears.
• Here's some of the dirt you scraped from the undersides of your gumshoes.
• Ms. WILLIAMS: When I knew to a moral certainty I was probably in my early 30s because back when I started - unfortunately for me, I do not have - the Internet was not available, so therefore it was the old kind of gumshoe hit the pavement, and that's really hard because, you know, when you face somebody, they can shut the door in your face, and it's not as easy to be able to have the information that today we have at our fingertips. Hank Williams' Lost Music: Rare And Resurfaced
• `Because, my love, there is no way he or any of his gumshoe oppos are going to carry this investigation a single step further. RIOT
• As he slowly recovers, he imagines scenes from his first novel, The Singing Detective, with himself as the lead character, a gumshoe who croons on the side.
• Structural changes aside, it's hard to get a fix on whether the gumshoes are making headway.
• The past haunts the present in this wonderful mystery novel featuring Kate Atikinson's regular English "gumshoe," Jackson Brodie, in pursuit of an ex-cop who has run off with an endangered child. The Best Fiction of 2011