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John Davidson was a policeman who, like many others, became a private detective. But why did he use two surnames?
George Trace wanted to capitalise on his police experience - but also needed to distance himself from it. He did so by using his son's name.
One Dubliner eludes the researcher, and highlights the problems with investigating private detectives
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One Sheffield man tried his hand at various jobs before becoming a private eye. This final career ended in the 1920s - in the debtors' court

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Was this Bristol agency all it claimed to be - and who was the 'former Pinkerton's detective' who ran it?
In Edwardian Britain, one Welshman led a private detective on a merry dance - but he got to his prey a day too late...
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The work of one Cardiff detective shows that although he knew what his job was, on occasion, his clients didn't...
Rose Woodger was scared of her private detective husband - was his insistence that he was a good husband who made his wife bacon breakfasts a…
A Nottingham private detective was asked to prove a relationship that both predated one man's marriage, and lasted throughout it...
When Kendall and Stammers were paid lots of money to find evidence that Geraldine French-Brewster had been having an affair, they made sure they found…
There were just two detectives plying their trade in Leicester as World War 2 was declared - but which one was the 'Leicester Investigation Bureau'?
Irish-born Matthew Nunan became a private detective after ill-health forced him out of the police
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