detectives

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The killing season

a summer inside an LAPD homicide division
1997
A journalist reports on what he witnessed while shadowing an LAPD detective team throughout the course of one summer in South Central Los Angeles, revealing the effects of the unremitting violence on the cops, killers, the victims, and their families.

Hundred-dollar baby

2007
Spenser, a Boston private eye, agrees to help a former client, a young prostitute who is now a well-established madam, discover who is trying to blackmail her and uncovers connections with local kingpin Tony Marcus.

Shadowing the suspect

1980
Explains how to shadow a suspect, how to shake someone following you, how to track a suspect and cover your own tracks, and how to read animal tracks.

At the scene of the crime

1980
Discusses the six basic questions detectives attempt to answer when investigating a crime.

Nancy Drew

2008
Teen detective Nancy Drew investigates the mysterious death of a movie star.

The High-Rise Private Eyes

the case of the puzzling possum
2001
Bunny and Jack investigate the disappearance of a trombone from Mr. Riley's music store.

The frog who croaked

2013
Platypus detectives Corey O'Malley and Rick Zengo are on the case of a missing teacher.

The Thief Lord

2002
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.

Patient zero

2009
Baltimore detective Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism task force and asked to lead an ultra-secret rapid-response unit on a dangerous mission to stop a group of terrorists from releasing a bioweapon that will turn ordinary people into zombies.

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