Erasing David Vice: Hello Duncan, could you tell me what it is a PI actually does? Duncan Mee So you don’t follow cheating husbands and their suspected mistresses? And how do you go about that? What kind of people are dealing in counterfeit goods? What are the most common counterfeit goods you seize? That’s pretty dark. Is there a lot of dangerous counterfeiting? Have you been hired to look into dangerous situations? That’s a pretty good sting. Have you ever feared for your life? But he didn’t pull the trigger. There must be some grisly PI stories you all swap. Being a smuggler doesn’t seem like as much fun now. How did you get into becoming a PI? Do you have to do an exam? Could you tell me about some of the various gadgets you use on the job? website Cool, what else? In all the classic thrillers, PIs use fake names like it’s going out of fashion. Have you ever adopted a false identity for a job? HENRY LANGSTON