Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Detectives, by Profession: A List of Significant Characters in Mystery and Detective Novels, Classified by Their Occupations

Recently reading the web I found a great page written by Martin Kich a Professor of English at Wright State University--Lake Campus.

He lists private investigators in literature! WHAT A GREAT GUY!!!

Detectives, by Profession: A List of Significant Characters in Mystery and Detective Novels, Classified by Their Occupations



Thanks Mr. Kich.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Submit your Private Investigator Story

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How to submit:

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Who to Submit to:

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Do

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  2. Tell US your story (YOURS, not your companies)
  3. Be economic with words ("very very very bad" - is "bad" no real degree of bad)
  4. Give us your contact info
  5. Give us a SHORT paragraph PROMOTE YOURSELF (not the company
  6. Give us your URL/website link

Don't
  1. DON'T submit CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION! (Your breach not ours!)
  2. Don't SPAM (we will tell everyone you are one of those guys)
  3. Do not submit incomplete or poorly formed stories (it reflects bad on you)
  4. Over CAPITALIZE (yuck)

Again...

  • We want to tell the story from the PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS perspective, not a PI Companies, unless it has a bunch of PI's (ya know those big surveillance and protection jobs. We will however allow you to post contact information about your company

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