Real Life Private Investigators
Cop shows abound , as we all know, because most of us watch them, on television (or in my case Netflix, as previously discussed). I've mentioned a few such series previously. Shows about private eyes have come and gone, going back to Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky in the '50's, a host of shows thereafter (one of my favorites was Stacy Keach in Mickey Spillane's classic Mike Hammer in the '80's. Spillane wrote that in the '40's, btw). Private investigators, in some form or another--from solving a friend or family's crisis or issue, to solving murders or other capital or major fiscal crimes--go back to Biblical times. Always with deadlines and death involved. And most often these P.I.'s are brought in to correct an injustice the authorities ignore or refuse to address--familiar themes that still resound today, and which I myself have used extensively in my E.C. Ayres mystery/thrillers. The first mention of espionage is in the Old Testament (Nu...