gumshoe

1 Today, all this stuff about crooked developers and water rights would already be on thesmokinggun.com, so no feisty gumshoe would be needed.

2 But you may just feel, like a world-weary gumshoe about to catch a new case, that you’ve seen this kind of trouble walk into the room plenty of times already.

3 Yearling Sammy Keyes There have been plenty of kid detectives over the years, particularly high school gumshoes.

4 If current political shenanigans haven’t already invigorated your respect for unglamorous gumshoe reporting, then “Water & Power: A California Heist” should do the trick.

5 The character was intended as a British rival to Raymond Chandler's American gumshoe Philip Marlowe.

6 What the passage of time has done for this superlative 1974 film is progressively lessen our sense of its being simply a  modern pastiche of the classic 30s gumshoe thrillers.

7 Why else would a woman return to a one-stoplight town to open up a gumshoe office?

还有什么别的原因会让一个女人回到一个只有一个交通信号灯的小城镇开侦探事务所？

8 He’s not doing the wild and crazy, wacky nutcase, he’s doing this kind of Bogart, gumshoe thing.

9 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.

10 Mr. Scahill, 38, narrates the film like a hard-boiled gumshoe following leads in a film noir.

11 He was famous for his cynical, hard-drinking gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, and lines like: “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

12 In fact, she can be awkward, and she will no doubt make the audience squirm when, for example, she tails John and his new girlfriend around the city like the most conspicuous gumshoe imaginable.

13 I’d often sneak into his room to try them on, tying my father’s pocket watch to the belt loop and twirling it around, pretending I was an old-timey gumshoe.

14 I would have welcomed bigger helpings of Isadore’s music and canal construction with perhaps smaller portions of gumshoe sleuthing and Mafia intrigue.

15 Godard’s pulpy homage to American B-movies and hard-boiled gumshoe dramas exists in a world where technology and totalitarianism partner for evil.

16 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.

17 Given the old-school setup, and the intimations of gumshoes and genres past, the blonde should be giving her boss the once over as she straightens the seams on her stockings.

18 Marlowe, however, is not the only gumshoe on the case.

19 They return for Jack's second adventure, as Guy Pearce's gumshoe helps his dad's old mate Des locate his missing son, who may or may not be mired in a governmental conspiracy.

20 It laced its gumshoe story with sizzling chemistry, beginning a formula that would return to Hollywood every few decades like a comet propelled by pheromones.

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