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Example sentences for: detective

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Critics describe this detective novel, the author's first, as "part Thomas Pynchon, part Ralph Ellison" (Dan Cryer, New York Newsday ) and praise Whitehead as a refreshingly original voice.
After initial jeers, critics extend a warmer welcome to Martin Amis' detective novel, Night Train . "The novel draws its energies from the linguistic pyrotechnics of Nabokov and the human immensities of Bellow," says John Lanchester in The New Yorker , where Amis is regularly published.
Properly done, with little violence and much detection, a TV detective story is the ideal nonirritating, guilt-free interactive program.
Just named one of the New York Times ' "Notable Books" of 1999, this chronicle of the struggle to understand the flu virus that killed about 700,000 Americans wins high marks for the way it blends rigorous science and a gripping detective story.
The Central Intelligence Agency was widely known as the “Inside Detective Bureau”; we eventually started to use it ourselves.