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detective story
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Noun1.detective storydetective story - a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
mystery story, whodunit, mystery - a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
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detective story n → romanzo poliziesco, (romanzo) giallo
detective story n → romanzo poliziesco, (romanzo) giallo


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Charles Dickens's Hunted Down: The Detective Stories Of Charles Dickens (0720612659, $22.
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This new Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars mystery series from Scholastic opens with Fall Of The Amazing Zalindas, the first in a projected series of casebook detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and his young assistants, a band of street urchins who help probe the gruesome deaths of a circus troupe's tightrope walkers.
Fall of the Amazing Zalindas by Children's Bookwatch
Unfortunately, limited space makes it impossible to highlight all of Poe's works; none of his marvelous detective stories is included in this volume, though a lesser work like King Pest is.
Pomplun, Tom, ed. Graphic classics: Edgar Allen Poe by Galuschak, George / Kliatt
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