Private Eye


The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2)
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
C is for Corpse  (Kinsey Millhone, #3)
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
L is for Lawless (Kinsey Millhone, #12)
The Thin Man
Henry Kane
Oh ho, the private eyeball! Poor, prosaic, wretched eyeball. Alas, alack, woe and whoa! Harder and faster they chain him to the stone of stereotype—more and more he cannot earn his daily bread without conforming to the curious standards so stringently set out for him. Once upon a time he had to talk from out of the side of stiff-lipped mouth in accents clipped and surly, and there was the bleak but sheer necessity of constant sexual acrobatics with each and every lady who entered within earshot ...more
Henry Kane, Death of a Flack

Theodore Dreiser
Damals war der Ruf des Detektivs William A. Pinkerton und seines Auskunftsbüros sehr bedeutend. Der Mann war durch eine Reihe von Wechselfällen aus Armut zu hohem Ansehen in seinem sonderbaren und für manche Leute widerwärtigen Beruf emporgestiegen, aber für alle, die solche an sich unglücklichen Dienste benötigen, war seine wohlbekannte und patriotische Rolle im Bürgerkrieg und um Abraham Lincolns Person eine Empfehlung. Er oder vielmehr seine Organisation hatte diesen während der ganzen Dauer ...more
Theodore Dreiser, The Financier

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