gumshoe
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Farrell is terrific, as always, as an empathetic gumshoe investigating a trail of crime and corruption that rings true to devotees of L.A. noir, from Raymond Chandler to “Chinatown” to Jordan Harper.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
But if the musical ever gets a rewrite, I’d suggest bringing the gumshoe on as soon as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Melling’s scenery-chewing portrayal of the budding writer — and, here, amateur gumshoe — is one of the film’s chief delights.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023
The panel does intend on continuing its gumshoe work as long as possible, and is not planning to release its final report until December.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Then he gumshoed around the neighborhood and found that Ohman, though uneducated in a formal sense, was a smart man who often expressed an urge to fool the scholars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today there are spooky gumshoed armies of "security consultants," "rent-a-cops," "private eyes," "outside experts"—every manner of shady operator who retails in "results" and discretion.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
"Has that grasping old monopolist gumshoed into town again?" inquired Washburn, and promptly ordered his secretary to get Boise on the telephone.
From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by George Randolph Chester
When your trades are newspapering and gumshoeing, you tend to meet interesting people from all walks of life.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Army's most publicized G.I. after his amateur gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam.
From Time Magazine Archive
In all, some 17,000 names were carefully set down by Hague's 311 district leaders, with appropriate comments by gumshoeing ward heelers.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he began gumshoeing, back in 1949, he made $50 a day, and now he charges $100.
From Time Magazine Archive
We drove for about an hour, the horse gumshoeing his way through the dark until we came to the hotel.
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by Kenneth McGaffey
