description: An autobiography of a man who gave up a sinecured professorship of philosophy to become a private investigator in San Francisco. Trained by a man who is both a master detective and an expert on Dashiell Hammett, he comes to see his new trade as an obscure art form.
language: English
title: Gumshoe: Reflections of a Private Eye
titlecomplete: Gumshoe: Reflections of a Private Eye
genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography, Crime
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Pan Macmillan