private investigator
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Our everyman is Ben Reilly — played by the incomparable Nicolas Cage, making his live-action television debut — a private investigator who moonlights as the city’s only superhero, the Spider.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
The ultraviolent 1991 film was directed by her former husband Renny Harlin and co-starred Samuel L. Jackson as a lowly private investigator.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Wright later called an allegation of paying a private investigator to "blag" information from Lady Lawrence "absolute nonsense".
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
The Advocates have since ceased operations, but co-founder and private investigator, Cynthia Liles, is still running the hotline under the name 2x2 Church Accountability.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
He could have gotten Nazario to hire the best private investigator in the city and traced her all the way to Florida.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
