Private Investigators on TV - Remington Steele

Remington Steele, unlike other private investigators, actually didn't exist at the outset of the TV series. Let me explain. The star of the program was Laura Holt played by Stephanie Zimbalist. Laura had studied to become a private investigator, did an apprenticeship then started her own PI business. Unfortunately she had no clients whatever and concluded that this was because no-one believed that a female private eye could cut it.

Enter Remington Steele. Laura invented him and made him her boss. All of a sudden, the agency had more cases than they knew what to do with. If that seems a rather odd way to carry on, there's a further twist.

A man turns up claiming to be Remington Steele. Of course he isn't but he won't reveal his own identity and he won't leave. Laura rather likes him, however, and he's very charming and, played by Pierce Brosnan, very good looking.

Steele joined the agency, which consists of Laura, Murphy Michaels (another investigator played by James Read) and their secretary, Bernice (Janet DeMay). He took the credit for being the "boss" while Laura did most of the work. She also attempted to find out who he really was but it appeared that although he didn't have a name, he did have a past which was revealed piece by piece. Inevitably there was an attraction between Steele and Laura which culminated in their marriage at what should have been the end of the last season.

In the meantime, an IRS agent, Mildred Krebs (Doris Roberts), who has been trying to prosecute Steele for non-payment of income tax, joins the agency and more of Steele's past surfaces. Previous girlfriends in trouble pop up from time to time together with rumours of Steele's criminal activities.

The wedding should have been the end of the line but NBC decided that they were on to a good thing and insisted on one last season, comprising a couple of feature length programmes and a two part climax in which a deep secret from Steele's past surfaces, together with the inheritance of an Irish castle.

This was a fun series with enough of a taste of mystery and romance to make it popular, although the final "series" wasn't up to the standard of the rest.

Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Private Investigators.

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Spy Web Detective

Is it just me or have others noticed that there is an on going problem in our society. Every evening when you watch the news on TV or when you read your morning newspaper the news is always bleak. You see these horror stories about children that have been abducted or about a grandmother who has had her retirement savings stolen or you read about a person who has had their identity stolen and has lost all their money.

No wonder more and more people are turning to the web to do research on new people they meet, business people they may partner with, neighborhoods they may move into or even potential marriage partners.

I have a friend named Carl that has become a spy web detective. The reason Carl became a spy web detective is because he had a very bad experience with a business partner that cost him a lot of money.

Let me tell you Carl's story. Carl was an ordinary guy who worked his butt off because he had a dream and that dream was to open up a chain of hair salons for men. Carl new all about the hair salon business as he was a great hair stylist. He had been cutting hair and saving his money for about 10 years. His plan was to open with a single salon and then once that was a success he would expand.

Anyhow, Carl was close to accumulating the funds for his first salon when he happened to mention his dream to one of his clients. Carl had been cutting this man's hair for about a year and when Carl mentioned his plans the man became very interested. Not only did he become interested but he started to elaborate on Carl's plans and insisted that Carl could open up a chain of hair salons without having all the funding necessary.

My friend Carl became very excited about this opportunity and the man suggested they form a partnership. Carl jumped at the opportunity. The man sounded like he knew what was doing and he knew his way around bankers and loan officers. Carl was ecstatic with the realization that his dream was coming true and lot quicker than he thought possible.

To make a long story short the man Carl trusted so much took Carl for every penny he had. Carl was heart broken. Carl eventually did a background check on this man - something he should have done in the first place - and found out this man was a known thief. He had even done time in prison for embezzlement.

And that is why Carl is now a spy web detective. Every person he meets he does a background check on the web before he strikes up even a casual friendship. Not only that but before Carl got engaged he ran a background check on the web on his girlfriend.

I've known Carl since we were in high school together. And to show you how pessimistic Carl has become about people and how much of a web spy detective he has become - he ran a background check on me last week.

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Blake Dexter is a freelance writer and researcher. To find out more about Spy Web Detective please visit Web Detective Services

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I have looked at various adsense tracking scripts - both free and paid products. Yet I have chosen to put Adsense detective as the top one to promote to my mailing list.

I always take care not to promote something I don?t use myself as so many people do that. Just sign up with a few mailing lists and you are bombarded with promotional emails - stuff that the list owner just copy and paste and send to his/her mailing list.

I just know that if you make enough effort to set up websites with content with Google Adsense Ads on them, you would not like the idea of having wasted all your work when your Google Adsense account is shut down due to someone going crazy and illegally clicking away like mad on the ads on your site - it could be a family member or a friend thinking they are doing you a favor helping you make money or it could be your competition. If you have spent hours like me with content sites, you know how dear your Google Adsense account is to you. Ask me - I know - ever since I got my first click I know my Google Adsense account was for keeps.

What made me finally decide to go for Adsense Detective is the fact that I read somewhere someone said that he convinced Google that he did not himself clicked on his own Adsense ads and the fact that he could provide the IP addresses on the illegal clicks had Google convinced to take the clicks off his Google Adsense account.

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I have previously purchased Adsense tracking scripts that failed to work once installed, and with Adsense Detective you get everything ready. When you write up your html web page or you create your php template, all you need to do is add a small of of code at the bottom of the page, just before the closing body-tag, and your clicks are tracked for you.

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