detective-story

Auden's first published pieces were detective-story reviews for London newspapers, and his essay "The Guilty Vicarage" is a well-known appreciation of mystery tales.

The ABCBs Of Murder Tom Nolan 2011

The private-eye novel, for instance, the hardiest of American detective-story forms, had another fine season, thanks to exciting books by both veterans and newer writers.

And Then There Were Ten Tom Nolan 2011

The British detective-story writer P. D. James, who worked as an administrator in the British National Health Service in London when “care in the community” was being introduced and whose husband was a long-term patient in a mental hospital, comments bitterly that community care “could be described more accurately as the absence of care in a community still largely resentful or frightened of mental illness.”

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

The British detective-story writer P. D. James, who worked as an administrator in the British National Health Service in London when “care in the community” was being introduced and whose husband was a long-term patient in a mental hospital, comments bitterly that community care “could be described more accurately as the absence of care in a community still largely resentful or frightened of mental illness.”

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

He is aided at times by another old school chum and fellow veteran, Charles, a detective-story reader Mrs. Agatha Christie. . .

Moments Of Grace Amid Catastrophe Tom Nolan 2011

Perhaps cheating actually adds a layer of interest — a cat-and-mouse element, a detective-story element — that complements the game?

Is Cheating Good for Sports? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Perhaps cheating actually adds a layer of interest — a cat-and-mouse element, a detective-story element — that complements the game?

Is Cheating Good for Sports? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

But even when the detective-story foundation begins to crumble and the gumshoe protagonist (Leonardo DiCaprio) becomes racked with visions of concentration camps and bloody children and babbles about Communist subversives and Nazi experiments, Shutter Island is still suffocatingly movieish.

Shutter Island : Martin Scorsese's Eyes Wide Shut David Bourgeois 2010

But even when the detective-story foundation begins to crumble and the gumshoe protagonist (Leonardo DiCaprio) becomes racked with visions of concentration camps and bloody children and babbles about Communist subversives and Nazi experiments, Shutter Island is still suffocatingly movieish.

David Bourgeois: Shutter Island : Martin Scorsese's Eyes Wide Shut 2010

The one visual exception to the standard detective-story palette comes in the forest of Rambouillet, with characters crawling through its tall thick ferns which look pre-historic.

GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 6. 2007