Words similar to gumshoe

Example sentences for: gumshoe

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A story profiles Terry Lenzner, White House gumshoe.
Here's an example of why: In Twilight , aging gumshoe Paul Newman regards glamorous movie queen Susan Sarandon with anguished eyes, his longing for her at war with his loyalty to her cancer-ridden husband (Gene Hackman).
It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.