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Copyright 2007 by Steven Kerry Brown

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Introduction

Welcome to the second edition of The Complete Idiots Guide to Private Investigating. In this edition youll find a ton of new material and some of your old favorites. Even though I wrote this book, I still pull it off the shelf every couple of weeks to double check something. For the professional, its a valuable guide on how to do your work. For the student in a PI course, this book may well be your text. Its used in public and private schools across the nation. If youre a do-it-yourselfer, you cannot find a better resource for the price than this book.

I spent a day a few weeks ago with a criminal defense attorney working a criminal rape case where his client was the defendant. This attorney asked me if Id read Earl Stanley Gardners Perry Mason books.

Id never read any but had certainly seen lots of Perry Mason on television. This attorney said the criminal law in the Mason books and on TV was basically accurate, except even the best trial lawyer will never get the guilty person to confess on the stand. So did I know why Perry Mason won all of his cases? What was his secret to success?

Paul Drake, he said. Perry Masons private investigator. A really good attorney will understand how an excellent investigator can help him win cases. If an attorney doesnt understand that principle, then hes not a good trial attorney for sure.

So what do private investigators really do to help attorneys win cases? To explain that, let me tell you about my college friend whose father was president of a company that made cans for vegetables and other food items. The company felt business was stagnating and wanted to expand. It hired a consultant to originate ideas on increasing business. The board of directors met with the consultant after hed done his research. When they were all seated, he said to the board, Okay, what kind of business do you think this company is in?

Thats simple, were in the can business, the board told him.

No, you arent, the consultant said. Your company is not in the can business; its in the packaging business.

With that concept in mind, the company went on to greatly expand into all areas of packaging.

Likewise, the private investigator is not in the surveillance business, or the electronic countermeasure business, or the background investigative business. Well, if its not any of those businesses, what kind of business is it?

The private investigative agency is in the information business. The PIs client needs to know something. The PI gets the information. The unusual techniques that a PI uses are the fun part of the business and are what separates it from other information businesses, but nonetheless, information is what a PI sells.

How to get the information using tricks of the trade is what Im teaching you in this book. Whether youre a professional PI or doing it for yourself, the techniques are the same and theyre all here.

You have two choices: do it yourself, or hire it out. Ive tried to put everything in this book, all the basics, to help you do it yourself or find the right PI for the job.

If youre already a professional PI, I think youll find some tricks and treats in each chapter thatll help you build your business, be more professional, get more clients, and make more money.

Every chapter is woven through with real stories from the case files of my PI practice. The names and locations have been changed to protect my clients identities, but the pertinent facts are there and the situations are real. The solutions are real, too. Real people, real facts, real life.

Now look through the table of contents to find your specific problem, and Ill show you how to get the information you need.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is presented in five sections:

Part 1, Private Investigation, Business or Fun? teaches a little history of the PI industry, how to find a professional PI, the legal requirements to obtaining your own PI license, the skills and equipment youll need, and how to get hired by a PI agency.

Part 2, Getting the Scoop, offers both the basic and advanced techniques for skip tracing. These chapters will teach you where to find information, how to dig up the dirt at the courthouse, where to access the public record databases, and how to log on to the secret pay sites that professional PIs use. And also, I give you a few tips on extracting information from the phone company.

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