| Instead, they ended up as quasi-independent gumshoes who are picked by the president and who report to Congress and the heads of their agencies. |
| Structural changes aside, it's hard to get a fix on whether the gumshoes are making headway. |
| Today, instead of sending hired gumshoes after cheating husbands and wives, we can turn our homes into high-tech surveillance staging grounds. |
| Though the guzzling gumshoes of the 30's and 40's evolved from those eloquent pipe-smoking dandies, they have as much in common as rotgut rye and Earl Grey tea. |
| Curious to know more about the popular eatery that appears to be packing Taipei adventure seekers in, we sent one of our resident gumshoes over to case the joint. |
| Unlike their urban brethren in, say, Chicago or Miami, Seattle gumshoes perch in aeries that look out on spectacular vistas. |
