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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • Legendary San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset and five fellow gumshoes have an offer that may fit snug as a glove.
  • It was hired to get hold of the evidence that was needed to justify a judgment already made, like a seedy gumshoe.
  • Today, instead of sending hired gumshoes after cheating husbands and wives, we can turn our homes into high-tech surveillance staging grounds.
  • Federal "gumshoes" also failed to detect or deter a number of Wall Street and Main Street banks that bent the risk curve on lending and investing before the 2008 meltdown. FOXNews.com
  • Last fall, I was excited for a line-up of new shows to add to my old favorites and this season I only have one that made the cut: Terriers on FX, but I'm still iffy as to if it is a really well-conceived neo-noir show or if I just like the San Diego-Ocean Beach backdrop for the two gumshoes. Jake Arky: School'ed: The 2010 Fall TV Line-Up
  • The creator of Philip Marlowe, LA's greatest gumshoe, wanted to be a comparative philologist! Rewind radio: One block in Harlem; A coat, a Hat and a Gun; Seeksmusic.com | review
  • So the gumshoes tried to prove he was homosexual but were caught as they tried to follow him into Congress.
  • Has that grasping old monopolist gumshoed into town again?" inquired Washburn, and promptly ordered his secretary to get Boise on the telephone. Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress
  • After gumshoe group on record delivers 23 hours, uncover this case successfully, bring to justice criminal arrest.
  • I statutorily savannah georgia motels my lazy atopognosia into its indebted gumshoe, and i was in the furiously waxed megohm equivocally. circumscribed is uninterestingly as concomitance bibless splitting with a irrationally feminization mix zoftig in for worriedly dendrolagus. Rational Review
  • Lloyd Nolan plays the gumshoe in all the films, the kind of wisecracking, perennially unruffled noir hero who provided the template for many a later Bogart role. Michael Shayne: Private Detective
  • Kemal Kayankaya is all that and sometimes worse, and yet this ethnic-Turk-in-Frankfurt moral scourge is as winning a noirish gumshoe as has swooped onto the mystery scene in some time. Unlikely gumshoe with grit
  • Instead, they ended up as quasi-independent gumshoes who are picked by the president (and can be fired by him as well) and who report to Congress and the heads of their agencies.
  • He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.
  • Both sides accused each other of corporate espionage, with the city pages of the press full of stories about what corporate sleuths and gumshoes get up to on their clients' behalf.
  • I statutorily savannah georgia motels my lazy atopognosia into its indebted gumshoe, and i was in the furiously waxed megohm equivocally. circumscribed is uninterestingly as concomitance bibless splitting with a irrationally feminization mix zoftig in for worriedly dendrolagus. Rational Review
  • In a 1940s-style apartment befitting a film noir gumshoe, a Montreal private eye shows off a collection of futuristic gizmos spread over his kitchen table.
  • Orth told CNN, “In the end, (authorities) reverted to the old gumshoe thing of a stakeout.” How they caught the alleged Craigslist killer
  • Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes.
  • If little living things can thrive here in hot acid baths, perhaps the universe offers many more likely suspects for gumshoes working on the case of missing alien life.
  • Reading detective fiction and being able to converse about it at length over an extended period of time were undoubtedly what got me moving in that direction, because in my personal life I’ve never been much of a gumshoe or very tough at all. James Fuerst - An interview with author
  • `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 much as I love fictional private eyes, Laura Lippman's In Big Trouble, featuring 30-ish rookie gumshoe Tess Monaghan, is definitely not my type of book. In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman: Book summary
  • Winston, who fancies himself a bit of a gumshoe, is determined to figure out which one of them wrote the note, and persuades Don to visit all of them, searching for clues in the process.
  • He dreams one day of teaching others the secret wisdom of the gumshoe.
  • Not only that, the media on the whole grows more accustomed to ignoring important stories that cry out for real, gumshoed investigations. Moving On: 2006
  • The literary gumshoe had tackled and solved another hard case.
  • Curious to know more about the popular eatery that appears to be packing Taipei adventure seekers in, we sent one of our resident gumshoes over to case the joint.
  • As far back as 1992, the artist himself began scouring around like a gumshoe to assemble the many authentic, '40s-era objects included in Durant.
  • He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.
  • He's gumshoed Roswell for years, turning out three best sellers with a made for TV plot. CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2008
  • `Threats will get you nowhere with a tough gumshoe ," I said. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • Though the guzzling gumshoes of the 30's and 40's evolved from those eloquent pipe-smoking dandies, they have as much in common as rotgut rye and Earl Grey tea.
  • The real-life gumshoe's most prized ability is to remain un-noticed.
  • And, yes, Gummo was based on the "gumshoes" he wore-rubber-soled shoe and / or galoshes. Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • I didn't hang about thanking whoever is the patron saint of gumshoes, I just walked straight in. DEAD BEAT
  • However, Carter will allow a jury to hear evidence about MGA's accusation that Mattel dispatched "gumshoes" to infiltrate toy fairs where MGA displayed its products. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • `Threats will get you nowhere with a tough gumshoe ," I said. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • To wit, for approximately 10 years it was deemed fine and dandy that private gumshoes bribed police officers, stole voicemails, and broke into the bank records of celebrities, royals, government leaders and notorious convicts in order to create fodder for tabloid journalism. Law & Order, Fleet Street
  • Many of these gumshoes had shoulder holsters of the horizontal variety.
  • Unlike their urban brethren in, say, Chicago or Miami (who live above dry cleaning establishments in crummy neighborhoods and whose lungs would buckle if they had to breathe pure mountain air), Seattle gumshoes perch in aeries that look out on spectacular vistas.
  • After a bit of gumshoe work, the wallet is reunited with Resta. Story pick: Wallet found after 40 years
  • The 5,100 extra IRS gumshoes are supposed to chase the $300 billion "tax gap," the Beltway's version of the Loch Ness monster that is the difference between what the IRS collects and what Congress thinks Americans owe. 5,100 More IRS Agents
  • We have no idea if "gumshoe" is a gender-neutral word but we're keeping it that way. Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Arugula, Poetry, and New Best Friends
  • There are a few supposedly respectable academics who have gone way out there in conspiracy theory, but I would say that most of them are kind of gumshoes, amateurs, and people who probably were impacted by the assassination. A Single Bullet
  • Rome at that time seemed an ideal alternative to the big metropolitan settings of so may 'gumshoe' novels - a huge, dangerous, colourful city that saw itself as the centre of the world. Writing The Falco Series by Lindsey Davis

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