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The detectives pose for flashbulb pictures beside handcuffed suspects or scenes of carnage, their hats rakishly tilted.
Sherlock Holmes, of course, is the father of the British detectives, and when he began to appear on PBS in the '80s, we watched him regularly.
When a couple of police detectives ask a Mafia chieftain (Ben Gazzara) for help in their search for the serial killer, the local bully boys show a little too much fascist zeal, keeping tabs on people's movements and pulling strangers out of cars.
Morris reportedly said he doesn't believe Congress will impeach the president for lying under oath about his relationship with Monica, "but they might well impeach him if evidence comes forward from woman after woman after woman, of private detectives scurrilously, sometimes illegally, perhaps under physical intimidation, working on stopping these women from telling the truth.
Newsweek 's package tracks the "secret war" behind the scenes, where Clinton's staffers, lawyers, and private detectives labor to contain bimbo eruptions.