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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigation

This is one of the best books available in covering the basic knowledge and techniques a private investigator needs to be successful.  The book is a great resource for anyone interested in becoming a private investigator.  This well-written, and well-organized book is packed with real world examples and tips on conducting surveillance, finding missing persons, searching public records, using the internet, legal considerations, and much more.  The book does an incredible job of introducing the many facets of the private investigation industry and explaining them in and easy to understand and digestible manner.

The Investigator's Little Black Book 3

Author of the original Investigator's Little Black Book, Scott here updates his "huge collection of investigative resources." The volume contains an exhaustive amount of information on topics private investigators might find pertinent. Wonder what state issued a given social security number? Scott has the answers. The volume begins with an alphabetical listing of sources. Entries include phone numbers or Internet addresses for further information. Graphical icons indicate whether the information is new to the volume or restricted in some manner. The second section of the volume includes information on warning signs of electronic eavesdropping, caliber comparisons, a guide to concealed weapons, and over 30 more topics essential to the P.I. Much of the information is available via phone books and Internet sites the catch is knowing where to look. Scott has done the legwork and fashioned a book of practical and essential information. A great source of information for the professional private investigator and a good read for the armchair P.I., this is recommended for large public libraries. Karen Evans, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute.  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Private Investigation - How to Be Successful

This first edition, 218 page, hardbound book contains thirteen information - laden chapters. It thoroughly covers the full range of issues that today's professional private investigators must deal with become tomorrow's successful professional private investigators. Private Investigation How To Be Successful! deals with the thought of entering this bountiful field up through successful business operation. This book is written to be read!

The Literary Bridge
"Private Investigation How To Be Successful!" is a book that is surprising in its content and delivery. I anticipated a dry, detailed analysis of how to hide in the bushes while doing a surveillance without catching poison ivy. Instead, I was rewarded by an always - interesting, easy-to-read detailed analysis about becoming a successful PI. This is definitely a book for "know it alls" because after you've read it you'll really know it all!" Genero Capshaw...The Literary Bridge.

The Process of Investigation

...the security and investigative worlds will welcome this long awaited second edition. - Security Management

...applies equally to those new to investigations or those lacking practical experience. - Security Management

At almost 350 pages, the book is packed with actionable information - Security Management

…an ideal reference tool for… ….any one who deals with computer evidence issues and computer related investigations. - New Technologies, Inc.

You Too Can Find Anybody

Right at your fingertips, you can now have access to thousands of government and law enforcement agencies, records departments, and licensing bureaus used by private detectives! Renowned private investigator Joseph Culligan has done all the legwork—all you have to do is pick up this book and find the information you need.

Missing Persons

Fay Faron first discovered her proclivity for detective work when the houseboat she'd just bought sank in Sausalito's Richardson Bay and it behooved her to track down the boat's elusive previous resident. She is the founder of the Rat Dog Dick Detective Agency (seriously!) in San Francisco, and a regular guest on Oprah!. She has written an informative, entertaining, nay, hilarious guide for anyone writing about detectives and missing persons (MPs). Missing Persons tells us who is most likely to become a private investigator (PI), who is likely to go missing (or merely misplaced), and who would want to find them (hint: "the working PI's motto often is 'The client is not always right and often is not even sane.'"). We learn how and why people hide their whereabouts, and how to go about locating them. While 95 percent of a PI's work is done sitting at a desk, says Faron, "sooner or later your detective has to actually get off his duff and go out into the real world and burn up some calories." This is called "gumshoeing," and includes such scintillating activities as surveillance ("newspaper reading, coffee drinking and bladder rending") and dumpster-diving ("although I'd sooner admit to wearing Tan- In-A-Bottle to my high school reunion, I will concede there are lots of treasures to be found in day-to-day debris"). The appendices list PI licensing requirements by state and state laws regarding taping telephone conversations and such, so you don't make a fool of yourself. Faron works in fabulous, unbelievable examples from her 15 years in the business and lines such as this, about one MP who was discovered to be alive, not dead: "Dr. Mort had not, in fact, taken a dirt nap."  - Amazon.com

Investigations - 150 Things

The authors of this book supply 150 things that the security practitioner should know about investigation. They forgot one: "Buy this book." The wide range of topics in the slender volume renders this book an excellent resource for the department administrator, the law enforcement executive, the supervisor, the hands-on practitioner, and the occasional investigator. There is no task performed by an investigator that doesn't receive some mention in this little masterpiece. - Security Management, August 2000