Detective Novel

Was this fair in book that uses detective-novel techniques? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although the wrap-up might be a little fast and facile (there's a detective-novel wrap-up chapter at the end of this one wherein All Is Revealed), Silva somehow manages to get through these books without dividing the various spies and assassins into "good buys" and "bad guys." ❋ Matociquala (2007)

Chabon isn't trying to subvert the detective-novel genre, the way a more precocious writer might; instead, he respects it while using it as a tool to accomplish something extra. ❋ Bradamant (2008)

GAMESReally Mad Max It's gritty, violent and absolutely overflowing with sappy, tough-guy detective-novel dialogue. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The pages were now, like many of his favorite books in his American detective-novel collection, unglued and ready to escape from the battered cover that held them loosely together. ❋ Kaminsky, Stuart M. (1991)

Ms. LaPlante, another adult child losing her mother to Alzheimer's, is less concerned with the detective-novel mystery than with the deeper one: What does it feel like to lose your mind and to know that you are losing your mind? ❋ By PAULA SPAN (2011)

More universal guffaws for the session on the upcoming Bored to Death, starring Jason Schwartzman as a writer and detective-novel fans who starts moonlighting by impersonating a detective. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My friend, detective-novel expert and author Maxim Jakubowski noted on his Facebook blog that he was about to be interviewed on the radio to assess the merits, or lack thereof, of the new Bond book, just before he hopped a flight from London to Los Angeles, where he’ll appear in the LA edition of Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In the Flesh. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Somehow you don’t seem like the detective-novel type, Picard.” ❋ W.R. THOMPSON (2000)

“Don’t depress me with your detective-novel logic,” he said. ❋ JONATHAN AMES (1998)