How To Use Detective novel In A Sentence
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As a general rule, I only read detective novels.
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Tired of writing detective novels, she began to explore new territory.
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She's the author of three detective novels under the moniker of Janet Neel.
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She's the author of three detective novels under the moniker of Janet Neel.
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It's a kind of hard-boiled detective novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
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The Singing Detective: A novelist embarks on a fever dream while hospitalized, replete with musical numbers and plot lines from his pulpy detective novel.
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It was predated by two years with the 1860 publication of "The Trail of the Serpent," by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; it uses the same "casebook" formula replicated afterward by Charles Felix, as did another 1860 detective novel, "The Woman in White," by Wilkie Collins.
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Poe's creation of the detective novel is recognized by the Mystery Writers of America.
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Crime fiction portrays a world perpetually in extremis, and in the detective novel variant it emphasizes a process of discovery and revelation that in some ways models the very structure of narrative itself.
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What ultimately makes Inherent Vicecompelling is that in accepting the narrative protocols of the detective novel -- which includes the obligatory visit of the femme fatale who initiates the action, an encounter with goons that leaves Doc unconscious, episodes of verbal sparring between Doc and a cop, etc.
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Tired of writing detective novels, she began to explore new territory.
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You offer a long list of reasons why one might become a detective novelist.
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As a general rule, I only read detective novels.
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Like the detective novel, the romance abides by a hermeneutic code, in which the outcome is always assured.
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Down below, the cook, his labours over, was lying on his bunk, reading a detective novelette.
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Tired of writing detective novels, she began to explore new territory.
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Tired of writing detective novels, she began to explore new territory.
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How does it differ from the detective novel?
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Richard Boston Reading, Berkshire EUREKA Ngaio Marsh I seem to have known for a long time that ngaio, the given name of the late Novo-Zelanian author of detective novels, was a Maori word, but only recently did I learn that it is the name of a New Zealand shrub or tree, related to the Australian blueberry tree and the Hawaiian bastard sandalwood, the wood of which was used for making gunstocks.
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As they say in hard-boiled detective novels, the guy's made his choice.
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Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist.
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This is the detective novel or the crime novel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly.
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Buy the latest Robert Crais or Robert B. Parker instead, and be pleasantly surprised by how literate, humorous, and touching a hard-boiled detective novel can be.
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The academic father, Christopher (Stanley Townsend) constantly denigrates his blocked novelist wife, Beth (magnificent Kika Markham), who is determined, but with ditsy working methods: It's a marriage-breakdown detective novel.
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One last observation about the detective novel.
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But otherwise it had all the ingredients of the detective novel, down to a theme, the passion for justice.
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We are re-writing a film script at the direct request of a studio, preparing a television series pitch, I'm writing a science fiction novel with my mentor Larry Niven, writing the third Tennyson Hardwick detective novel with my wifie, researching a contemporary thriller involving quantum physics, National Security, and the damnedest cult you ever saw.
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For instance, when we read a detective novel, we have a different experience of the story before and after the denouement is reached.
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The classic English detective novel marries the two elements.
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You have got the fire in your belly that will make an excellent detective novel.
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Dashiell Hammett's cynical detective novel was published in 1929 and was immediately popular.
