In the growing drug and pop culture of the sixties, he proves himself once again, but has become heavily reliant on other investigators ( especially the private investigator, Mr. Goby ) who provide him with the clues that he can no longer gather for himself.

He portrays Sam Axe, a beer-chugging, womanizing former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, the show's main character.

From within this literary environment emerged many stories and novels about private detectives, also known as private investigators, PIs and " private eyes " (" eye " being the vocalization of " I " for " investigator ").

Although Mori is actually a private investigator with his own agency, the police never intentionally consult him as he stumbles from one crime scene to another.

At the time, Morris had been making a living as a private investigator for a well-known private detective agency that specialized in Wall Street cases.

Loner spy personalities may have been a stereotype of convenience for authors who already knew how to write loner private investigator characters that sold well from the 1920s to the present.

* In Tales to Astonish # 2 ( 1959 ) " My Job: To Catch a Martian ", a professor, who discovers an empty alien spacecraft, hires a private investigator to find the occupant when no one else will listen to him.

They adopted two daughters, Catherine ( who is a private investigator ) and Jackie.

Spenser and Hawk live in the same Boston literary universe as Parker's other, newer series characters: private investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier ( named Rosie in the Randall novels ) while the latter had a much larger role in Back Story.

* Jon Polito as Da Fino, a private investigator hired by Bunny's parents, the Knutsens, to entice their daughter back home.

Exline became friends with the Coens and, in 1989, told them all kinds of stories from his own life, including ones about his actor-writer friend Lewis Abernathy ( one of the inspirations for Walter ), a fellow Vietnam vet who later became a private investigator and helped him track down and confront a high school kid who stole his car.

* March 17 – The Atherton Report ( private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco ) is released.

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

The private investigator Jeff Katz, who was hired by Calvi's family in 1991 to look into his death, claimed it was likely that senior figures in the Italian establishment had escaped prosecution.

A hallmark of the stories is that Perry Mason ( with the assistance of his devoted secretary Della Street and his faithful private investigator Paul Drake ), once embarked on a case, will juggle the evidence using unusual ( even bizarre ) tactics to mislead the police -- but ( except for the very earliest novels ) always in an ethical fashion:

* Paul Drake: private investigator played by William Hopper in Perry Mason.

* Paul Drake, Jr .: Paul Drake's son ( also a private investigator ), played by William Katt in nine of the TV Movies listed below ; Katt is the son of actress Barbara Hale ( see above ).

Allan Pinkerton, an early American private investigator, with Abraham Lincoln and John Alexander McClernand

It was not until the prosperity of the 1920s that the private investigator became a person accessible to the average American.

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

so during the period approximately from 1941 to 1946, Patchen often used private detective stories as a myth reference, and the `` private eye '' as a myth hero.

He is a target of ridicule to his wife, and often -- since private affairs rarely remain private -- to the outside world as well.

In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.

Private companies often contract out private shuttle bus services, for transport of their customers or patrons, such as hotels, amusement parks, university campuses or private airport transfer services.

The practice often extends into the exclusive private hire and use of a bus to promote a brand or product, appearing at large public events, or touring busy streets.

Exhibition buses are often sent to public events such as fairs and festivals for purposes such as recruitment campaigns, for example by private companies or the armed forces.

Private sector businesses did not grow as the taxes on private enterprise were often prohibitive.

A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue.

In civil cases involving disputes between private citizens, the behaviour resulting in the ruling is often directed at one of the parties involved rather than at the court directly.

Additionally, caddies are often allowed to play the course at which they caddy for free, usually on a Monday ( the day that most private clubs choose to close their course for maintenance ).

Retired judges or private lawyers often become arbitrators or mediators ; however, trained and qualified non-legal dispute resolution specialists form a growing body within the field of ADR.

However, Sapir often showed little understanding for Benedicts private thoughts and feelings, and particularly his conservative gender ideology jarred with Benedict's struggles as a female professional academic.

This subjective experience is often called a quale ( plural qualia ), and it describes the private " raw feel " or the subjective " what-it-is-like " that is the inner accompaniment of many mental states.

Some libertarians in the U. S. object to vouchers on the grounds that granting government money, even indirectly, to private and religious schools will inevitably lead to increased governmental control over non-government education, and possibly over the teachings of the sponsoring religious group ( most often a church ).

Tax-credit scholarships which are in most part disbursed to current private school students or to families which made substantial donations to the scholarship fund, rather than to low-income students attempting to escape from failing schools, amount to nothing more than a mechanism to use public funds in the form of foregone taxes to support private, often religiously based, private schools.

Geoff usually appears in private conversations in his office with Mike, and is often the catalyst for Mike to question the reassurance he has been given by a producer that the story of the moment is being ethically pursued.

Others consider it to be evidence of a tragedy of the commons, since the large collective plots were often neglected, or fertilizers or water redirected to the private gardens.

After independence, Kenya promoted rapid economic growth through public investment, encouragement of smallholder agricultural production, and incentives for private ( often foreign ) industrial investment.

During World War II, though already an experienced composer, Hartmann submitted to a course of private tuition in Vienna by Schoenberg ’ s pupil Anton Webern ( with whom he often disagreed on a personal and political level ).

** Docklands Light Railway: normally abbreviated DLR, this is the automatically driven light rail network in east London, although actual operation and maintenance is undertaken by a private sector franchisee.

Rose – Hulman Institute of Technology ( abbreviated RHIT ), formerly Rose Polytechnic Institute, is a small private college specializing in teaching engineering, mathematics and science.

The Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas () ( Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, abbreviated as PUC-Campinas or PUCC ) is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Campinas, the second largest city of the State of São Paulo.

The word ' dishwasher ' ( or abbreviated as simply " dish ") may also refer to a person who washes dishes in a restaurant, hotel or other private or commercial entities.

Both cultures made or make use of complex text coding and abbreviated language slang, both required network security experts, and both attracted criminals who used the networks to commit fraud, hack private communications, and send spam messages.

" Three Rivers " As it is abbreviated by locals, was the brainchild of two local teachers, one of whom had originally been teaching a small private school by the name of Thomas More Preparatory School.

Union Catholic Regional High School ( often abbreviated UC ), a private Roman Catholic school, brings in students from Union County and parts of Essex and Middlesex counties and operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

The man-in-the-middle attack ( often abbreviated MITM, MitM, MIM, MiM, also known as a bucket brigade attack, or sometimes Janus attack ) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.

A cavalry soldier of private rank is called a trooper ( abbreviated Tpr., not to be confused with trouper ).

The Rhaetian Railway (,,, abbreviated RhB ) is a Swiss transport company, owning the largest network of all the private railways in Switzerland.

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school ( also known as tertiary preparation and usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, tertiary prep, or prep school ) is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education.

, abbreviated as, is a private university located in the northern part of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

The University of Dayton ( abbreviated and commonly referred to as UD ) is a private Roman Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

The New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences ( abbreviated to CALS or Ag School ) is a statutory college at Cornell University, a private university located in Ithaca, New York.

There are a few low-rate student dorms in the town, however a large majority of students share private flats with a couple of other students ( German: Wohngemeinschaft, abbreviated WG ), or live in single apartments.

Cincinnati Country Day School ( abbreviated " Country Day or CCDS ") is a private, Independent School located in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

Home insurance, also commonly called hazard insurance or homeowner's insurance ( often abbreviated in the real estate industry as HOI ), is the type of property insurance that covers private homes.

The day of her funeral, May 9, all public and private schools closed, all state offices closed, and most businesses closed or had abbreviated hours.

The Ibero-American University ( in Spanish: Universidad Iberoamericana, abbreviated UIA but commonly known as Ibero ) is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus.

, occasionally abbreviated as Nose Railway or, is a Japanese private railway company headquartered in Kawanishi, which links several areas in the mountainous Nose, Osaka, area to Kawanishi-noseguchi Station in Kawanishi, Hyōgo, where one can transfer to Hankyu Takarazuka Line to Osaka.

Takushoku University ( 拓殖 大学 ; Takushoku Daigaku, abbreviated as 拓大 Takudai ) is a private university in Japan.

Tatung University ( often abbreviated TTU ) ( 大同大學 ) is a private university in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, with close cooperation with the Tatung Company ; and not to be confused with Tatung Institute of Commerce and Technology.