private eye
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The contemporary film noir story, which just wrapped production, stars Garcia as a private eye who operates like a 1940s Raymond Chandleresque detective in present day Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
The article focused on Robert Winnett, the British journalist poised to take over The Post’s newsroom in November, and described his links to a private eye who used unethical media practices to land big exclusives.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
The great Richard Roundtree, who died this week at 81, played which private eye in five movies over a 50-year period?
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023
Burns, a former Secret Service agent, had succeeded Pinkerton as the world’s most celebrated private eye.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
