Jealous wives with a good income often turn to detectives.

[Игорь Коракс]

Jealous wives with a good income often turn to detectives

This year marks 125 years since the publication of the first story by Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes “Study in Scarlet” (1887), whose readers first met with the famous detective - one of the main characters of Britain and the profession of detective.

It was from Sherlock Holmes that the images of “investigators,” first detectives, and later investigators (roman policier), scouts, whose romantic halo still excites the imagination of ordinary people, penetrate into literature, and later into popular culture. Thanks to the British detective, whose profile with a characteristic hat and a smoking pipe is no less replicated than the character himself, the image of a “real” private detective is still perceived as an image of an intellectual superhero, and his everyday work is considered a “collection of adventures”. Is this really so, we decided to find out from real detectives.

One of our interlocutor - private detective Oleg Popov, who works in Rostov-on-Don, Pyatigorsk, Nalchik and other cities of Russia, the other did not want to give his name - let us call him Aslan, - works in Nalchik. Both are former law enforcement officers. Although the conversation with each of the detectives took place at different times, in their "testimonies" there were many coincidences.

Newspaper Nalchik: Who in our city most often turns to a private detective?

Oleg: Basically, citizens who can afford it - the services of a private detective are not cheap. Throughout the year, there were many calls from elderly parents looking for their adult children. Children, leaving for other cities in search of a better life, sometimes do not make themselves felt, parents are worried, but, fortunately, there has not yet been a case where the search was unsuccessful. Surprisingly, among young people seeking "self-realization" in megacities, girls most often meet are 25-27 years old and much fewer guys. But the most numerous category of our clients are jealous spouses, mostly wives.

Aslan: Most often, jealous wives with a good income turn. Although we help the poor in solving their problems, it happens that we give advice - just humanly.

G.N .: Have there been any oddities in your practice?

Oleg: There is nothing fun in my everyday life.

Aslan: How so? I remember another jealous wife asks to follow the unfaithful husband - it seems nothing unusual. We get to work and suddenly find that a man can be in two places at the same time. Say, mystic? Everything turned out to be simple: my husband has two cars of the same model and color with license numbers that differ by one letter. So he drove us by the nose.

G.N .: Why didn't your wife warn you?

Aslan: I think she herself was not in the know - women are not used to paying attention to car numbers (laughs).

GN: How often does a detective have to be a psychologist?

Oleg: Yes. We are not just making money. The “human” side of our work is no less important. Before reporting the result, I conduct a conversation with the client in order to prepare him for the "bitter truth", to forestall a stormy reaction. So, for example, a woman who convicted her husband of treason, kept herself in her hands and did not scratch her opponent’s eyes.

Aslan: Sure. It happens, I dissuade a client if I see that the services of a detective will not help heal a mental wound, solve life problems, and even, on the contrary, the result of the investigation will aggravate the situation even more or strengthen a person’s inner feelings.

G.N .: This year marks the 125th anniversary of the famous Sherlock Holmes. In this regard, I want to ask a question that interests many readers: how much works of the detective genre “imitate life”?

Oleg: Nothing to do with life. Detectives write as they are customary to write. In fact, there is no romance in our work. Every day you see the most unsightly aspects of life. Routine work ... Although with a certain artistic processing it is possible to write whole series of short stories and stories on its material. I even know a writer who works on my material (Oleg refused to give his name - approx. Author).

In our work, there are many restrictions prescribed in Russian laws. For example, we do not have the right to monitor a person and establish an audition without his written consent. Our “technical equipment” is also far from what is shown on television every day.

Aslan: Well, who in childhood was not fond of tales of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson? Of course, in life everything is different. We are not at all like literary heroes — neither Sherlock Holmes, nor Sam Spade, nor Commissioner Megra ... To begin with, we don’t have any assistants like Dr. Watson or Captain Hastings - this is too expensive a pleasure. We can only hire support staff: a driver, a secretary, and others. We also do not have the opportunity to conduct round-the-clock observation of how the heroes of novels and films do it.
I recall a case when a lady wanted to work in our agency, having read detective novels (laughs). Another no less eccentric lady, having seen enough of the series on Channel One, demanded that we find the car she described within an hour by satellite, and promised to pay well. It was fun.

G.N .: How can one successfully work without technical equipment?

Oleg: It all depends on professionalism.

Aslan: A detective is like a good doctor. Of course, it is good if he has the necessary diagnostic equipment, but I have often heard even from medical professors that a good doctor needs his knowledge, competence and five sensory organs to make a correct diagnosis. I can say that a detective is a head, legs, head, head, head ...

G.N .: Has your idea of human nature changed during your work?

Oleg: The more I know people, the more I love animals.

Aslan: Of course, there are many vicious, greedy people in the world, but in Nalchik there are still more decent people.

Author: Julia Bekuzarova, the newspaper "Nalchik"

 

[Детективное агентство ИКС-Инфо.]

Thank!!!!
Most of all I liked this "piece" :

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G.N .: How can one successfully work without technical equipment?

Oleg: It all depends on professionalism.

Aslan: A detective is like a good doctor. Of course, it is good if he has the necessary diagnostic equipment, but I have often heard even from medical professors that a good doctor needs his knowledge, competence and five sensory organs to make a correct diagnosis. I can say that a detective is a head, legs, head, head, head ...

G.N .: Has your idea of human nature changed during your work?

Oleg: The more I know people, the more I love animals ...

 

[Детективное агентство Симферополь]

Thanks for the article, Igor!

 

[Орлан]

interesting article, thanks!

 

[Симферополь]

Interesting article, Igor! True, two points are indicative of it:
1. About how they followed the cunning spouse.
2. That you can monitor people only with their written consent.
What do you think, allowed the colleagues to "work" the happy owner of two cars and a jealous wife?

 

[Улисс ГК Скарамуш]

No wonder the category of referring to detectives in such cases is “jealous wives with a good income”. The husband’s relationship on the side is a direct threat to the well-being of the family and the future of children.
But male infidelity compared to female infidelity is a trifle, judging by the consequences. In case of female treason, the situation is aggravated by a serious infringement on the assets of the husband’s clan, especially when slipping on a husband a fake alien spawn instead of his own children.

 

[Частный детектив. Тайный советник. Омск.]

Igor, thanks !!! I enjoyed reading

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thanks, interesting stuff!

 

[Частный детектив Краснослободцев Дмитрий Николаеви]

Thanks, interesting.

 

[Растаман]

Thank! Interesting!