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Example sentences for: detective

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His literary preferences run the gambit from John Le Carré spy novels to Robert Parker's detective stories.
Finally, on a much classier plane, there is Fallen . This bleak supernatural detective story has a script by Nicholas Kazan, the talented screenwriter of Reversal of Fortune , and has been stylishly directed by Gregory Hoblit, but both of them are working against long odds here.
At bottom, Pynchon writes mystery novels--symphonic, polymathic detective stories that resolve themselves not in simple sums but in hip new intellectual logarithms.
It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.
Properly done, with little violence and much detection, a TV detective story is the ideal nonirritating, guilt-free interactive program.