Many people wonder what it would be like to be a famous private investigator like Sherlock Holmes, Magnum PI, or Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple — going from one exciting case to the next.

Well you are about to find out.

The men and women in this podcast are licensed to spy and you will hear them revealing their most fascinating and hair-raising cases.

Using their powers of deduction, observation, surveillance and disguise, these guns for hire deal with everything from corruption, adultery, greed, and violence as they solve crimes, catch cheats and rescue children.

Just like the movies, their tools of the trade include spy cameras, night vision goggles and multiple disguises.

In episode one you will hear from David King, who has built a career catching cheaters.

“There are as many naughty boys as there are naughty girls,” he says, while revealing Valentine’s Day is King’s busiest day of the year.

Keith Schafferius is Australia’s longest licenced private eye and has earned the nickname “The Retriever”.

In episode two you will hear how he has been shot at, chased by police, jailed and forced to pay bribes as he reunited more than 100 children with their families.

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EP 1 CHEATERS:WOMAN SPENDS $500K ON CATCHING CHEATING HUSBAND

EP 2 THE RETRIEVER: MUM KILLED BY PIRATES TRYING TO SAVE KIDS

EP 3: THE DEBT COLLECTOR: ‘DRUGS IN BIKES’: PI’s BRUSH WITH CRIMS

Ep 4: SPECIAITY MURDER: WHAT EVIL AUSSIE SERIAL KILLER TAUGHT ME

Ep 5: CATFISHING: HOW SERIAL CATFISHER PAUL BRYAN GILL WAS CAUGHT

EP 6: THE BUG DETECTOR: AUSSIE CEOs AND CELEBS FEAR BEING SPIED ON

EP 7: THE HUNTER: HOW KEN GAMBLE ESCAPED ALLEGED HIT BY CONMAN

EP 8: UNDERCOVER: HOW PI FOUND HIMSELF FRAMED FOR MURDER

“You are served” are among Marea Smith’s favourite words.

Smith – who features in episode 3 – has been in the private eye business a long time and has a nose for trouble and she is not to be messed with. Marea has specialised in debt collection and process serving and says it can be a nasty business.

Michael Rumore’s speciality is murder. And in episode 4, he reveals how some of his work has been so dangerous, he’s left behind instructions for what to do, if he didn’t turn up at a certain place at a certain time.

Catfishing has become the scourge of social media and it means a scammer using social media or other online communications to catch a romantic match using fake info. But it happens in real life too. Enter Julia Robson, who in episode 5, who has spent seven years tracking down one of the greatest romantic conmen.

Under cover of darkness Alan Earl and his team creep into an office and unpack the tools of their trade. They are there on a top-secret mission to sweep the property and find out if they are being bugged.

In episode 7, you will hear from Ken Gamble and how spying using technical surveillance is a thing. And a big thing it turns out in corporate Australia.

We return to Keith Schafferius in episode 8 as he goes into detail of what life as undercover is really like – including his 30 year search for one of the Western World’s most wanted conmen.