Those firms then hire freelance investigators to do work like surveillance or the acquisition of phone records.

Little is known about Dakota North's early life, other than at a relatively young age she chose a career as a freelance private investigator.

The immediate success of these two novels assured a flourishing new career, and Cheyney abandoned his work as a freelance investigator.

With this freedom he sets himself up as a freelance investigator and problem solver.

To put them together, he enlists the help of Salander, a freelance investigator for a security firm who once investigated Blomkvist himself.

Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago-based private freelance private investigator who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective.

Wells, a freelance investigator, is sent to track Moss but ends up himself tracked and killed by Chigurh, as hunter becomes hunted.

Mr. Perot also visited an associate of Mr. Sheehan's, a freelance investigator, to pursue it further.

It is strange that novelists misperceive journalists as an odd species of freelance private investigators, forever tracking down wrongdoers.

Garrett P.I. is a series of books by the author Glen Cook about Garrett, a freelance private investigator.