Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

In this way, the private detective gets the best of two possible worlds.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

Driven from the marketplace by the course of history, our hero disguises himself as a private detective.

The individualism and public service of the private detective both stem from his dedication to a personal code of conduct: he enforces the law without being told to do so.

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

With the advent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the development of the modern private detective begins.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

In order to save the mystery story, they have converted the private detective into an organization man.

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.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

The private detective must rely, as the Youngest Son or Trickster Hero does in primitive myth, on his wits.

In The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer ( 1945 ) Patchen exploited this national sentiment by making his hero, Albert Budd, a private detective.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

Mr. Ferrell is a private detective, Hirey.

) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them, and for his tendency to unknowingly " stumble " onto the truth.

These anti-heroes —" criminals, outcasts, visionaries, dissenters and misfits " call to mind the private eye of detective fiction.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

In the late 1930s, Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than the more distanced, " operatives report " style of Hammett's Continental Op stories.

it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

The private eye is therefore a moral man ; ;

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

And the anxiety it generates is misinterpreted as anxiety over private interest and threatened social status.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.

This led to the creation of a society based on heavy cavalry, vassalage, enfeoffment, immunity, private castles, chivalry and militant Catholicism.

He began to consider himself a militant, and he never passed the rank of private, from which he took the name Pvt Militant.

If you are up against private brand competition, have you formulated a long-term program for researching and strengthening your market position??

This Commission recommended against the use of federal government funds for the assistance of private universities and against a broad program of government-supported scholarships.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

Anarchists argue that the state is an initiation of force because force can be used against those who have not stolen private property, vandalized private property, assaulted anyone, or committed fraud.

The provision allowing private suits against states for money damages was invalidated.

In some countries private, local, and provincial ( state ) capabilities are being augmented by and coordinated with federal assets, to provide layered defenses against biological weapons attacks.

Selig was in attendance for Bonds ' record-tying home run against the San Diego Padres, sitting in Padres owner John Moores ' private suite.

Modern societies generally regard crimes as offences against the public or the state, as distinguished from torts ( wrongs against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action ).

" The Ancient Greek word krima ( κρίμα ), from which the Latin cognate derives, typically referred to an intellectual mistake or an offense against the community, rather than a private or moral wrong.

Government, as explained by Adam Smith, had only three functions: protection against foreign invaders, protection of citizens from wrongs committed against them by other citizens, and building and maintaining public institutions and public works that the private sector could not profitably provide.

Protection of individuals against wrongs normally meant protection of private property and enforcement of contracts and the suppression of trade unions and the Chartist movement.

Permissions protect against unauthorized tampering or destruction of information in files, and keep private information confidential from unauthorized users.

He likewise proposed legislative intervention into the terms of private bargains, to " provide against contracts being made which, from the helplessness of one of the parties to them, instead of being a security for freedom, become an instrument of disguised repression.

Ecuador shares U. S. concern over increasing narcotrafficking and international terrorism and has energetically condemned terrorist actions, whether directed against government officials or private citizens.

* 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

France prohibits by its penal code and by its press laws public and private communication which is defamatory or insulting, or which incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or a group of persons on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap.

In some cases, domestic courts may render judgment against a foreign state ( the realm of private international law ) for an injury, though this is a complicated area of law where international law intersects with domestic law.

Sartre and his lifelong companion, de Beauvoir, existed, in her words, where " the world about us was a mere backdrop against which our private lives were played out " ( de Beauvoir 1958: 339 ).

In the United Kingdom, for example, a treaty is not effective until it has been incorporated at which time it becomes enforceable in the courts by any private citizen, where appropriate, even against the UK Government.