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From Sherlock Holmes to Easy Rawlins to Veronica Mars, popular culture has had a fun time depicting private investigators. Danger! Mystery! Glamor! And while stories about fictional private ...

You might want to become a private investigator if you are naturally curious, level headed, and detail oriented. This is a field that pays well and doesn’t require a four-year college degree. There is ...

Private investigators are in demand and pay a starting rate of about $40,000 per year — and up to $250 for specialists.

Criminal investigators are a crucial part of any working society—they get justice for victims and work to put lawbreakers in jail. Although criminal investigation can be a mentally and physically ...

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