gumshoe• Dennis Miller is a down-at-the-heels gumshoe.• But he makes the pulp gumshoe formula look like a comforting ritual only normal societies can perform.• With Petersen under lock and key, life for the gumshoes of the Office of Security returned to normal.
Origingumshoe
(1900-2000)gumshoe“rubber shoe”((19-20 centuries)); because detectives walk quietly