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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.
"[T]he linguistic detective story of the decade," says William Safire in the New York Times Magazine . Most reviewers concur.
It is when one discovers that the dedicatee was a Manxman, and that the words are Manx for `Little Tommy' that one feels the nice sense of satisfaction that a detective must feel when he has at last unraveled a long baffling clue.
Leaving his harried wife (Catherine Keener) and infant daughter in wintry Pennsylvania, the detective travels from Cleveland to North Carolina to the subterranean S/M parlors of Los Angeles to a production office in the meat market of New York City.
In a friendly manner two men are talking in the presence of third man, an impostor — a detective or an investigative reporter — who believes he has infiltrated their ranks.