GUMSHOES
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After the unfortunate demise of his police detective father, Wendell Dankworth and his friend Jerome Weeble take up the roles of private investigators and begin a search for the criminals responsible.
Their inexperience and bumbling leads them into the worlds of smuggling, cartels, hit men, crime lords and gang warfare.
Real life also intrudes, when they shirk domestic responsibilities for the house they share along with a very strong-willed, no nonsense woman.
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