gumshoe
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And like Peter Falk’s immortal gumshoe, Elsbeth — who will insert herself unbidden into an investigation — asks a lot of questions, some merely out of curiosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
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
A few other things, really, including a fish-out-of-water comedy and a twisty detective story, with Ben as both fish and gumshoe.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 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 Sterling, Bruce
"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 Chester, George Randolph
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
When he began gumshoeing, back in 1949, he made $50 a day, and now he charges $100.
From Time Magazine Archive
But since last June, when the President authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tell you I'm afraid of pussyfooting and gumshoeing around Seaton and Crane.
From The Skylark of Space by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
