Susanna Speier

Denver Private Investigator Blog For my very last Denver Private Investigator Blog post, I've compiled a 'best of' roundup, featuring the top five posts of my half-decade tenure working as Chief Content Officer and Blogger for Ross Investigators.…

As Instagram influencers and podcasters with lots of fans, Atlanta bail recovery agents Alex Haynes and Jon Dalman are public-facing outliers in a field that often values anonymity. Anonymity Vs. Influence “We didn’t mean to get into the social media…

A children’s book author, illustrator, and bookshop owner recommends brain-teasing gifts for the curious kid in your life. When author and lifelong Nancy Drew fan Meghan McDonald asked her colleague Peter Reynolds if he’d like to illustrate the…

by Susanna Speier Whether the private investigator in your life is a toddler-mom, infant-mom, cat-mom, dog-mom or future-mom, tracking down Mother’s Day gifts for her can be a challenge. First of all, the market for female-PI gear is tiny, if it…

From October, 2017 to January, 2018, Frances Glessner Lee’s “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” exhibition made history, ranking as the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery’s second-most attended event in the gallery’s 45-year…

Marshall, a legal thriller with a civil-rights superhero as its protagonist, features an innocence case and a nail-biting investigation. By Susanna Speier I scanned the movie listings last weekend with Professor Marsden and the Wonder Women in mind.…

If you’re a PI visiting D.C., do not miss this thrilling temple of tradecraft. And take the kids with you! By Susanna Speier (With additional investigations by Paul Boocock, who courageously reported on taking kids to the Spy Museum) The…

Thanks to our industry’s rich literary history, private investigators often find themselves having to distill fact from fiction when outsiders ask what they do for a living. With only 34,900 private investigator jobs in the U.S. (according to 2014…

Find out how to imbibe* like an old-school shamus: A guide to fictional gumshoes’ favorite cocktails and the best noirish gin joints on earth (*Drink well and responsibly! Take a taxi home.) It’s not unusual for groups of private investigators to…

Although it has been associated with everything from espionage to gold digging, Urban Dictionary’s #1 definition of “honey trap” is a scenario “where a woman pays another woman to flirt with her boyfriends to see if he flirts back, a way to check if…

Jessica Jones: A realistic portrayal of a private investigator’s world (Except for the superhero stuff, psychopathic mind-control villain, gunfire, fistfights, massive property damage, and high frequency of self-inflicted death &…

As she enters her eighty-sixth year in spring of 2016, Nancy Drew adds a new skill to her arsenal of super-sleuthing abilities: coding. Her Interactive, the mystery video game publisher and Simon and Schuster licensee that acquired the video game use…

With nineteenth century Audubon prints now fetching record rates at auction, an art exhibit entitled Plants, Birds and Pollinators: Art Serving Science is more likely to evoke historic than contemporary associations. However, the watercolor, ink, and…

When the ensemble of cesium beam and hydrogen maser atomic clocks strike 11:11 today at Boulder's National Institute of Standards and Technology nothing will happen. Never mind the fact that the numbers are both binary and identical and that the…

I can't even recall a time that I wasn't cognisant of the fact that I lived in a country that actively pioneered space exploration. I remember sitting on wicker hassock in my Dad's study, as a child and asking lots of questions. Dad would light his…

Last week, self proclaimed "geek," Miss California, Alyssa Campanella made beauty pageant history...by default. When the interviewer posed a Theory of Evolution question, she was one of only two delegates to use the scientific definition of the word…

A few years ago, I worked as a Writing Department Intern for C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation and C.S.I. New York. Seeing producers, writers and real C.S.I.s collaboratively bring a story from pitch to beatsheat was intoxicating. Research was…

An immunocompromised journalist shares ways to make the spaces we share safer and more accessible to everyone. Click to read Immunocompromised Times, by Susanna Speier, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.