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Infographic: The Greatest Heists on Record

Does crime pay? An infographic highlighting the 5 biggest robberies in history and the punishments that followed (or didn't). Read More

Late-Summer Reads: 5 Crime Novels Set in Seaside Towns

Kim Green

Can't get to the beach in the final weeks of summer? Travel there between the pages of these thrillers, set by the sea. Read More

P.I.s, Pretexting, and the Law: Tips for Crime Writers

Colleen Collins

If you want to write a plausible private investigator character, here's what you need to know about pretexting and the law. Read More

13 Raymond Chandler Quotes that Define Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction

Kim Green

In honor of Raymond Chandler's 125th birthday and Private Eye Day, a few quotes that define the hard-boiled shamus and his world. Read More

From Death Row to New Life—Part 2

Claire Gibson

Anne-Marie Moyes went to law school to help free an innocent man from death row. Their story, and a tangled tale of justice long withheld and hard won. Read More

Our Favorite TV Detectives and What They Teach Us

Kim Green

A few small-screen sleuths who inspire us—with their methods, their style, or at the very least, their comic timing Read More

The Sounds of Surveillance: Brooding 70s Soundtracks for Gray Days

Undercover Rock Star

Pursuit's Undercover Rock Star goes deep underground, into the paranoid world of post-Watergate 70s cinema—and offers us these moody soundtracks to spy by for soupy surveillance days. Read More

From Death Row to New Life: Part 1

Claire Gibson

Ndume Olatushani served 28 years for a crime he didn't commit. And the woman he loves helped set him free. Read More

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The Business

LAUSD, the FBI, and What Every Investigator Should Know About an Incomplete File

Digital Stakeouts: OSINT for Investigators Who Like Receipts

Fairy Tales vs. Facts: The Unfanciful Truth about Unclaimed Assets

The Life

Unsung Heroes: Honoring Jonna Mendez, the CIA’s Master of Deception

The Family That Never Existed: A Siquijor Island Investigation

It was supposed to be a simple background.

The Pitch

Second Time Around: 7 Lessons I Learned from Losing My First PI Firm

Running to Catch Up with AI

Building a Successful Private Investigations Business

The Literature

Review: “The Ritz of the Bayou,” by Nancy Lemann

Review: “Ruby Falls,” by Gin Phillips

Review: “Boss Brooks: A True Story of Fraud, Family, and Forgiveness from Tennessee to Texas”

Avi Klein’s Swiss Army Knife of Tools for Locates

Q&A: An Investigator for the Defense

Fletch Inhaled Twice

Unsung Heroes: Honoring Jonna Mendez, the CIA’s Master of Deception

How Georgia Became The First State To Repeal Its Citizen’s Arrest Law

5 Spy Terms Disguised as Ordinary Phrases

History of Public Defense: Q&A with Legal Scholar Sara Mayeux

The Most Epic Frauds of 2020

History

Infographic: The Greatest Heists on Record

Late-Summer Reads: 5 Crime Novels Set in Seaside Towns

P.I.s, Pretexting, and the Law: Tips for Crime Writers

13 Raymond Chandler Quotes that Define Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction

From Death Row to New Life—Part 2

Our Favorite TV Detectives and What They Teach Us

The Sounds of Surveillance: Brooding 70s Soundtracks for Gray Days

From Death Row to New Life: Part 1

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

Avi Klein’s Swiss Army Knife of Tools for Locates

Jerry Buting and Reagan Wynn: Interviews & the Reid Technique

Erika Krouse, author of “Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation”

Mark & Wendy Murnan: The Mindset of a Business Owner

The Family That Never Existed: A Siquijor Island Investigation

It was supposed to be a simple background.