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Campaigns hire detectives all the time.
The district attorney's explanation--"I'm going to be ready to match the resources of anyone"--was taken by some as a sign that the probe may now be focusing on the girl's parents, who have hired their own lawyers, detectives, and PR people while still refusing to be interviewed at police headquarters.
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.
Friday, Feb. 5) is a slightly tonier version of Cops -- sans the screaming drunks--in which detectives use dogged legwork to find the killer in a drive-by homicide, and then some more detectives go undercover to entrap male prostitutes.
These days, they find room for their papers in the Palais de Justice and the nearby Préfecture de Police, haunt of those fictional detectives, Inspectors Maigret and Clouseau.