Private Detective by William Dear
The TV series "Watching the Detectives" introduced a large audience to William C. Dear, one of the most flamboyant and successful private eyes in the world. The hand-tooled boots and diamond jewellery, the Texas ranch, the cars, the boat, the planes - all these are a world away from the traditional image of the seedy gumshoe in his grubby office with nothing in the filing cabinet but a bottle of bourbon. Bill Dear uses the most modern techniques and the most high-tech equipment in the service of his clients, who hire him for just one reason - because his is the best, and he gets the job done. From the time he joined the Florida Highway Patrol as a skinny kid of 18, his pursuit of the bad guys has been relentless. He has been locked for hours in sweltering car trunks, crawled through rat-infested tunnels in search of missing children, and landed planes in the black of night to uncover buried bodies. He supervised the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald in order to disprove a conspiracy theory. Inevitably he has got up the noses of the police, who do not take kindly to having thier blunders exposed. He has had at least one contract out on his life; he has been knifed in the back; he has disguised himself as a doctor to nab a hitman on his hospital bed; he has been left for dead, throat slit from ear to ear and then reappeared for the sequel. "I guess I've been lucky" he says. Bill Dear has racked up more column inches than any other P.I. - and was featured in True Detective five times before he was 22. Now he tells his own story in his own inimitable way, a story as full of drama and incident as any crime novel.
Dear, William C.: - William C. Dear has worked all over the world, predominately on homicide investigations. He began his career as a police officer in Miami, Florida, and in 1961, he opened his own investigation agency, William C. Dear & Associates Inc., in Dallas, Texas. Dear is a renowned and entertaining speaker at conventions, training, workshops, and banquets. As a certified instructor in the field of homicide, Dear lectures and teaches law enforcement around the world. He was also appointed by the court to the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1981. Dear has received national and international acclaim on cases that made worldwide news coverage, most notably for the Dean Milo murder in Akron, Ohio, which resulted in eleven arrests and convictions--the most ever in U.S. history for a single murder case. Dear was inducted into the American Police Hall of Fame on April 14, 1988, as a private investigator receiving the Archangel Award for the Milo murder case. He is also the author of The Dungeon Master about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747512356 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747512353 |
| Title | Private Detective |
| Author | William Dear |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1992-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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