Private detectives in fiction are...
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Private detectives in fiction are often hard-drinking, chain-smoking people with unstable diets and poor sleeping habits. They get physically beaten, but they heal quickly and are soon back on the job. They never seem to exercise, and yet they are physically fit and seldom tired, while they solve their cases with abandon. This is fiction, real fiction. But often these stories are made to sound like real life. Such accounts may entertain, but they should not distract or replace. Actually, they highlight the value of one area of human wisdom, and set it before the value, and strength, and expanse of the wisdom of God. -- Gobrecht
