gumshoe

Montalbán endowed his Catalan gumshoe with an equally impressive set of quirks that are aired and explored in each book.

In some ways, The Hypnotist hews closer to the American gumshoe tradition.

The book on which I was doing all the gumshoe reporting, Godtalk, is now a time capsule.

Mr. Pepper don't like the idea, though, of doin' the gumshoe sneak.

And consider the appropriateness of the figures of speech, as gumshoe would say.

To heck with the gumshoe; bounds are off for the afternoon anyway.

One for the gumshoe, said Tony blithely, as they turned onto the campus.

But theres nothing I can do; Im in with gumshoe worse than ever.

Dye remember Reggie Carroll telling us that the gumshoe would get even?

Why, honest, Reggie, even the gumshoe just eats out of his hand.