(1) He was the new gumshoe - and Hollywood wasn't quite ready for him.(2) The real-life gumshoe 's most prized ability is to remain un-noticed.(3) he'd been intrigued enough to put a gumshoe on the case(4) He dreams one day of teaching others the secret wisdom of the gumshoe .(5) In a 1940s-style apartment befitting a film noir gumshoe , a Montreal private eye shows off a collection of futuristic gizmos spread over his kitchen table.(6) The literary gumshoe had tackled and solved another hard case.(7) He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.(8) Winston, who fancies himself a bit of a gumshoe , is determined to figure out which one of them wrote the note, and persuades Don to visit all of them, searching for clues in the process.(9) As he slowly recovers, he imagines scenes from his first novel, The Singing Detective, with himself as the lead character, a gumshoe who croons on the side.(10) He wasn't the gumshoe , the private eye, the detective of the forties in the black and white noir.(11) It was hired to get hold of the evidence that was needed to justify a judgment already made, like a seedy gumshoe .(12) As far back as 1992, the artist himself began scouring around like a gumshoe to assemble the many authentic, '40s-era objects included in Durant.(13) First, an online gumshoe would go to the company that hosts the forum where a message appears.(14) Curious to know more about the popular eatery that appears to be packing Taipei adventure seekers in, we sent one of our resident gumshoes over to case the joint.(15) Though the guzzling gumshoes of the 30's and 40's evolved from those eloquent pipe-smoking dandies, they have as much in common as rotgut rye and Earl Grey tea.(16) Many of these gumshoes had shoulder holsters of the horizontal variety.