And there’s no denying that that “the most famous bounty hunter in the world”) has had one hell of a ride. Still, if you can get past the constant horn-tooting, this real-life cartoon offers some fascinating - if self-serving - insights into the job. TV’s bounty hunting “Dog” barks up a storm. You Can Run But You Can’t Hide | Buy this book | Kindle it!

A refreshing change from the serious tone of some of the other books on this page. Winnipeg, Manitoba private eye Burke takes an anecdotal approach to his life. to the stars,” who promises “I will be recommending this book to all my students… (it’s) a well-prepared text for all, from beginners through veteran PIs.”Ĭonfessions of a Private Dick: If It Weren’t For the Sex…I’d Have To Get a Job Panka, who wrote the forward, and John Grogan, self-proclaimed “P.I. Written by Steve Brown, a private investigator, and endorsed by peers such as Edmund J. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Private Investigating | Buy this book | Kindle it! How-to guide and advice, mixed in with anecdotes about New York eye, Blye, whose biography Blye, Private Eye (see below) was a seminal book in this genre. Secrets of a Private Eye: How To Be Your Own Private Investigator | Buy this book Take with more than a few grains of salt. Armes, who’s still going strong, last I heard. Armes, Investigator: The World’s Most Successful Private Eye | Buy this bookĪutobiography of the amazing Texas P.I., Jay J.

In fact, some of these books are every bit as entertaining and moving as their fictional counterparts, and even the most gassy, self-promotional, horn-tooting, ego-feeding tomes here - and there are more than a few - have some really good stuff in ’em. Get it straight from the various horses’ mouths. on other folks’ fictionalized eyes is asking for trouble. novel, you could do worse than read these.

| True Detectives | The Paper Chase | True Detectives | Television | Film | Radio | Comics | The Writing Life | Diversions | Real Life Eyes | True Crime | | General Reference | History, Theory, Criticism & Other Agendas | The Pulps & Short Fiction | The ones on this page are general reference books, covering the whole spectrum of the mystery genre. If you like this site, you may find some of these as fascinating as I do. Here are the books that inspired me to create this site, and the books I’ve used to cobble it together over the years, as well as the ones I’ve discovered along the way. What? You thought I made this all up, or downloaded it all from Wikipedia? Nope.

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