Noun
the couple paid a gumshoe to look for their missing son
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On the surface, Sugar is the story of John Sugar (Farrell), a dapper gumshoe who tracks down missing people on behalf of an elite clientele.—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024 Solving murders regularly wears out our culture’s best gumshoes: Think of bedraggled Sergeant Catherine Cawood of Happy Valley, or Henning Mankell’s series about the Swedish inspector Kurt Wallander, who even brews coffee with an air of quiet desperation.—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024 And like Peter Falk’s immortal gumshoe, Elsbeth — who will insert herself unbidden into an investigation — asks a lot of questions, some merely out of curiosity.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024 Pay Out a Reward Send gumshoes home with Detect-It-Yourself kits.—Country Living Staff, Country Living, 8 Sep. 2023 The leakers’ tactics are as gumshoe as obtaining the phone number of a target, then convincing a phone carrier to switch that number to their phone’s SIM card to gain access to their text and audio messages.—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023 Marlowe, however, is not the only gumshoe on the case.—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023 An aspiring gumshoe, Susie is first introduced as a precocious grade schooler, sitting beside her mother, Anne (Jammie Patton) as the two read a detective novel — the nice kind that encourages adolescent curiosity and ends with a virtuous sleuth catching a mustache-twirling menace.—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 July 2023 Yearling Sammy Keyes There have been plenty of kid detectives over the years, particularly high school gumshoes.—Maureen Lee Lenker and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
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