"...Without official status, with no big stick to wave, the
private
operative can work only on the the reaction of the people he
investigates.
Only in their reaction can he hope to find revelation."
How true was this in the pre 1960 writing of P.Is, and has
the genre changed
since?
Mark Blumenthal
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