The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition: Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth

The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private Investigating, Third Edition, private investigator and former FBI agent Steven Kerry Brown shares his hard-won expertise on everything you need to know to track down people and information, including:
Tapping phones and recording conversations.
Interviewing and interrogating to get important information.
Tricky but legal ways to get needed evidence like the pros.
Performing onsite, online, and mobile surveillance without being detected.
Skip tracing to find lost loves or people who owe money.
Investigating backgrounds of potential employees or spouses.
Searching public records online and at the courthouse.
Catching a cheating spouse and gathering evidence for divorce cases.
Finding runaway teenagers.