gumshoe

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The play, which premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2022, brings audiences viscerally into the gumshoe work of archivists and researchers who authenticate, clarify and preserve artifacts of history.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

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 many ways, Mickey is a throwback to a classic gumshoe, though he's in front of the jury box.

From Salon • May 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