Peter Taylor, Private Investigator, Peter Taylor Associates

Peter Taylor, Private Investigator, Peter Taylor Associates
 
1. Where did you study Law? On the mean streets of the North West of England!
2. What is your favourite law?  No particular favourites, but all aspects of TORT and Criminality as they’ve brought in the most money over the years.
3. What is your least favourite law?   No particular least favourites either but there are some faults in divorce laws that I would like to see ironed out.
4. What are your favourite qualities in a colleague?  Honesty.
5. What profession other than your own would you most like to try?  I started out as a private detective because I couldn’t join the police due to my height.  I’d still love to give it a go.
6. What profession other than your own would you least like to try? Refuse collection agent or criminal.
7. Who is your favourite author?  Shakespeare.  I often think I could write a book about my time as a private detective though.
8. What is your best virtue?  Personal honesty.
9. What is your worst virtue? Laziness – I live alone and can be a little domestically lazy sometimes.
10. What are your favourite qualities in a friend? Honesty – are you seeing a theme here?
11. If you were not yourself, who would you be?   There’s no one else I’d like to be.
12. What is your favourite word?  Yes.
13. What is your least favourite word?  No.
14. Who is your fictional hero/heroine? Conan the Barbarian – it’s an obsession I haven’t been able to shake off since being a kid.
15. Who is your real life hero/heroine?  Edith Cavell who saved many soldiers from both sides during WWI.
16. Where is your favourite place on earth? Home.
17. Where is your favourite place to eat? My lady’s house – she’s a great cook!
18. What do you hate most in the world?  Crime and the fact that punishment often does not fit the crime.
19. If you could change the world in one way, what would you do?  I’d create more empathy between people. 
20. The natural talent you’d most like to have is? Making money.
21. What is your favourite motto? Fear not!

Peter Taylor has been a private detective since leaving school in the early 1960s.  He is currently a senior detective with www.privatedetective.co.uk, an agency of private investigators specialising in litigation support, criminal defence investigations and TORT across the UK and internationally.