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Surveillances Hollywood Style: From Sam Spade to Philip Marlowe

On July 20, 2012 By

Hooray for Hollywood

Gotta love Hollywood and its take on reality.  Sometimes my PI-husband and I watch a movie starring a fictional private eye and we laugh at the implausibility of a situation.  To be fair, some movies get PIs right, but sometimes they set up a scenario that’s more dramatic than realistic and we [...]

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What Is It Like Being a Female Private Investigator?

On May 16, 2012 By

According to PI Magazine, 15% of private investigators are women

Despite the thousands of private investigators throughout the U.S. (PI Magazine estimates there to be approximately 60,000), and the wide variety of specializations (from insurance investigators to accident reconstruction specialists to pet detectives), many people still view private investigators as Sam [...]

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Surveillance Tip: Sometimes a Question Is the Best Answer

On March 30, 2012 By

We were on surveillance yesterday, parked in front of a house for sale located across the street from the real house we were surveilling. Residential neighborhoods are tough places to conduct surveillances because most people know their neighbors and the vehicles they drive, so a PI in a strange vehicle can really stick out. If [...]

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I Know My Husband Cheats…I Just Want to Know If He’s Emotionally Involved

On March 26, 2012 By

We don’t handle that many infidelity cases anymore. Our choice. Why? Because besides being depressing, they’re often physically grueling. Trust me, sitting for hours in a car watching an apartment/house/exercise club/etc. can be exhausting. Sounds easy, but it’s not. You can’t let your attention slip, your back is aching from sitting there for so long, [...]

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Tracking People and Ghosts

On March 16, 2012 By

Recently I read several book reviews: one was about a girl who tracks her missing mother, and another a review for a paranormal romance where a sleuth tracked a ghost. Considering the popularity of these books with readers, I thought it’d be fun to write a little about finding people and ghosts (the latter often [...]

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Investigation Reports and Book Reviews: It’s About Credibility, Baby

On March 15, 2012 By

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I’m a writer as well as a private investigator. Recently my mystery novel The Zen Man has been reviewed on various book blog and review sites.  During this book blog tour, I’ve met some fantastic people who write well-crafted, critical book reviews, such as [...]

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The Day The Sheriffs Escorted Us to Another County

On March 13, 2012 By

One thing we’ve learned at our investigations agency is to never provide details about an investigation task to clients until after the task is completed. Years ago we learned the hard way when an overly emotional client spilled the beans about a surveillance to the subject of that surveillance, which not only killed the investigation [...]

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Confessions of a PI: The Night I Worked Undercover as a Pole Dancer

On March 10, 2012 By

I grew up taking dance classes — tap, ballet, jazz, the occasional folk dancing class. I still like to dance socially, feel

comfortable not stepping on anyone’s toes, and I can move in time to the beat. I keep in shape with long walks, lifting weights, and training our Rottweiler named Jack Nicholson.

A few [...]

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Process Services Can Be Deadly

On March 4, 2012 By

Many private investigators, including yours truly and her business partner, regularly serve legal papers (known as process services) to individuals, businesses and corporations. The popular movie Pineapple Express depicted

process service as a funky job where the process server could be perpetually stoned on the job, which is certainly entertaining, even hilariously funny, [...]

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The Day We Learned to Respect Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

On February 25, 2012 By

Many people laugh when they hear the term “pet detective” probably because it conjures images of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (a film series that starred funny man Jim Carrey). Actually, pet detection is a specialized investigative field. Like other investigators, pet detectives use a mix of  profiling, search-and-rescue, surveillance, even grief counseling techniques.

At our [...]

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