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Meanings of detective story in anglès

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literatura detectivesca

Literary genre.

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Usage of detective story in anglès
1
It needs to be a detective story, set in the near future.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
2
She has told rollicking adventures, touching romances and now a detective story.
The Guardian
3
A detective story of the lurid type that lulls us to sleep.
One Basket
4
You said: Tense, closely plotted detective story with a moral outlook.
The Guardian
5
Not a slasher thriller sort of a book, more a Poirot-esque detective story.
The Guardian
6
It's not just sci-fi but also a horror and detective story.
Radio NZ
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With Moriarty, Conan Doyle steps from detective story into thriller, drama into melodrama.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
8
I seem to have suddenly dropped into the middle of a detective story.
The Lost Naval Papers
9
To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story.
The Moon and Sixpence
10
I'd rather read a good detective story than any other sort of yarn.
Hidden Gold
11
This amateur, whoever he was, was almost as good as his detective story.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth
12
In leisure moments, bits of my detective story rattled about in my head.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
13
It was like living in a detective story-butthis was real!
The Subterranean Brotherhood
14
The film is a detective story that happens to have a particularly horrid villain.
The Irish Times
15
And following her sleuthing step by step makes for a fascinating art-historical detective story.
BBC
16
I enjoy reading every kind of detective story and thriller.
And Then There Were None