This week privatedetective.co.uk is shaking its collective head over some of the stories in the international media about private detectives in the news. First, David Lannon of Drogheda, Ireland, is accusing a government department of handing over his personal information to a private investigator. So who is Mr Lannon, a diplomat, a businessman, a celebrity […]
So the smash hit Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch is back on the air, and the world has fallen in love with private detectives again. Even the World Service has got in on the act with a discussion of private detectives around the world – but the reality of life as a private investigator is both […]
Cold case files around the world The strange and disturbing story of the shooting of British businessman Saad al-Hilli and his family in 2012 has taken an odd turn. As the result of work by a French private detective, a Belgian man has been named as a suspect in the cold case. French investigative processes […]
Private Detective London Murder and Mystery One of the truisms of city life is that rich and poor rub shoulders, as do good and bad. This month we’ve got a range of stories that reveal the deep, dark nature of city life and the many complex ways that private detectives must navigate the intricacies of […]
Who wants to be a private detective? Apparently our daily work as private detectives is the second most popular job in the UK. When JK Rowling published her latest novel Career of Evil, her publishers commissioned a survey of a thousand people and their second most popular ideal career turned out to be Private Detective! […]
This week we’ve been pondering a new release that is also a golden oldie. In a leafy part of Boston, not usually known for its criminal fraternity, is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. And in 1990 the museum was burgled. So far, so good. But … Law enforcement officials have just (as in last week) […]
In a recent new story, it’s been headlines that Middlesbrough council spent £17,000 on private investigators in an attempt to recover debt. Well, when I say headlines I mean the Northern Echo! Even so, it’s a reasonable amount of council cash and its right that people should ask questions, so here are some further facts: […]
Who needs a private detective? A big part of any private detectives work is confidentiality. We just don’t talk about who we’re working for or what we’re doing for them, not even in the office, not unless the person we’re talking to is part of the same enquiry team. That means that people outside the […]
People have a lot of odd ideas about private detectives. To be honest, the ones about the gorgeous blonde clients, the bottle of whisky in the desk drawer and so on … we rather like those odd ideas and don’t do much to dispel them! Another odd idea people have is that 99% of our […]
Valentine’s Day at a Private Detective Agency Lots of people find our daily routine fascinating – TV shows and crime novels suggest that we spend all our time drinking in dives, exchanging wise-cracks with beautiful blondes or breaking down doors to find dead bodies … nothing could be further from the truth, most of the […]