Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler is the third compilation album by
Dire Straits and British singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mark Knopfler, released in 2005 by
Mercury and
Vertigo internationally, and
Warner Bros. in the United States. Named after their 1982 hit single, the album consists of material by
Dire Straits, with songs selected from the group's six studio albums (excluding the 1979 album
Communiqué) from 1978 up through the group's dissolution in 1995. It also features work from the solo career of the group's singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Mark Knopfler, including some of his soundtrack material.