From Gabber to Gumshoe!

Peter Warren always sounded like a Mickey Spillane type of character, now he's decided to live the life of a Spillane.

Warren who has been a weekend talk show host on CKNW, since he moved out west from Manitoba eight years ago, has announced plans to leave the talk show business. The gruff, no nonsense gabber who is best known for his line "get on with it", will get out of it on Sunday when his final broadcast comes to an end on CKNW and the Corus network. In his heyday he was in the league of the Websters, Greens and such from his Winnipeg perch over the years, spending decades on the air at CJOB.

As any regular listener would know he's made a bit of a career out of following some of the more gruesome criminal cases of our time, so it's not much of a surprise that he's not actually retiring, only changing direction a bit.

His next career shift? That of a private detective, a gumshoe in search of a dime store mystery.

He's offering up his services to the families of 14 cold case files that he's been following over the years and will now devote all of his time towards the trail gone cold.