User:UserHandle/Hal Lipset
Hal Lipset | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 April 1942 |
| Died | 8 December 1997 (aged 55) Redwood City, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
| Occupation | Private investigator |
- ^ Thomas, Robert Mcg Jr. (12 December 1997). "Hal Lipset, Private Detective With a Difference, Dies at 78 (Published 1997)". New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
Hal Lipset, a storied San Francisco sleuth who helped elevate, or rather reduce, electronic surveillance to a miniature art, died on Monday at a San Francisco hospital.
- ^ Holt, Patricia (1991). The bug in the martini olive : and other true cases from the files of Hal Lipset, private eye (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. pp. 48–51. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
I told Francis I'd oversee the technical aspects as long as we used state-of-the-art equipment — no James Bond stuff — and tried to show how a real surveillance might work. What you see in that movie is the best of the field at the time with only one fib — the pocket tape recorder does not have a playback function — and one exaggeration: the parabolic mike is too large to use secretly. I tried it once, looked through a telephoto lens, and saw my subject thumbing his nose at me.
- ^ Taylor, Michael (9 December 1997). "Dean of Detectives Dies in S.F. / Harold Lipset transformed the world of private eyes". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
Harold K. "Hal" Lipset, the famed private eye who demolished the myth of the trench-coated, gat-wielding Humphrey Bogart character and turned the detective business into a respectable, lucrative and even intellectual profession, died yesterday at the age of 78.