To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a
detective story.
Like a good
detective story myself," remarked Miss Howard.
This is a lively and thoughtful hybrid of
detective story and psychological literary fiction.
It's a very interesting thing that Mankell puts dementia into a
detective story, when sometimes the identification of Alzheimer's or dementia is, in itself, a
detective story.
The roots of the
detective story, he said, run to Poe's fascination with scientific thinking.
Edgar Award finalist Keigo Higashino presents Malice: A Mystery, a
detective story set in modern Japan, now available as an unabridged audiobook.
The children, aged between seven and 10, from schools around Newcastle, were asked to write a
detective story titled Death on the Tyne.
1976: Dame Agatha Christie, the world's most successful
detective story writer, died aged 85.
The 'golden age' of the English
detective story during this span of 40 years or so is an important and often overlooked feature of English popular culture, as significant in its way as the dance bands and the early BBC.
Edgar Allan Poe is often considered the father of the modern
detective story.
A screen and stage actor, Wiseman's film credits include
Detective Story (1951) and The Unforgiven (1960).
TONY HILLERMAN (University of New Mexico), 83, the acclaimed Navajo mystery novelist, "blazed innovative trails in the American
detective story," according to a New York Times obituary.
detective story - a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution