| 单词 | detective story |
| 例句 | “But you know what it is—early hours of the morning—everything very still—the thing had a sinister look—like a detective story. All nonsense, really.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “So this,” she says, “this goes back a long way. When I was in, like, fourth grade, I started writing a story in this notebook. It was kind of a detective story.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A correspondence course in English; reads everything except detective stories. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z While the stories of adventure weren’t her favorite, and the detective stories were mostly confusing, the romance stories were exactly the kind of thing Ophie could delight in. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I sat reading detective stories until the family returned from the graveyard. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Women were always being kidnapped by cads in both True Romances and the detective stories. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In detective stories, when the sleuth revisits the scene of the crime, he nearly always finds a clue that has been overlooked by the ordinary police. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In one interview he said that he most often dreamt about detective stories, which could be intricate games in themselves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Ought to ferret out the mystery before we go. Whole thing's like a detective story. Positively thrilling." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z "A Death on the City Pavements—that's the title of a detective story or something I read somewhere . . ." He laughed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked on carefully because in good detective stories what people leave behind and don’t leave behind can be a clue to where they have gone. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Each month he received copies of all their publications: love stories, wild west stories, detective stories, supernatural stories and what not. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I like The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story, which means that there are clues and Red Herrings. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z No courses; looks up many things in Knaur’s Encyclopedia and Lexicon; likes to read detective stories, medical books and love stories, exciting or trivial. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It seemed like a stupid thing to ask, but the gumshoes in detective stories were always trying to get suspects to talk so they could figure out what to do next. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The title alone would make people think it was a detective story. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Anyone might see through the watch business—it is a common enough device in detective stories. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But her pride and joy were the Nick Carter detective stories, with a dead body on almost every page, as she boasted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I swim in the lake provided, and eat raisins and crackers spread thickly with peanut butter and honey while reading detective stories, and sulk because there’s no one my age around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Every detective story started with the private eye or police detective taking a case, and Ophie already had that: What had happened to Clara? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The third week they were asked to eat while listening to a detective story. Your brain is making you fat! 2014-01-01T19:00:00Z This week’s selection for Turner Classic Movies’ Black History Month Saturdays features a detective story set in the South and a comedic drama centered around familial tensions. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Love Trip: Paris’ and American Idol 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Kate Atkinson writes fantastic police detective stories that are also very literary, and tell you something about the world and society, and offer so much more than just a mystery to be solved. Paula Hawkins on 'Into the Water,' her follow up to 'The Girl on the Train' 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In effect, his site’s archives make up a valuable critical guide for anyone who enjoys “the normal recreation of noble minds,” as the essayist Philip Guedalla once called the reading of detective stories. Reading for a winter’s night: The detective fiction of Todd Downing 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The book scene here has long been dominated by detective stories and romance novels riven with heavy-handed propaganda, and classic foreign novels like Don Quixote. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z “The Awakening” is structured as a detective story in which clues are dropped that only later make sense. Movie Review: ‘The Awakening,’ With Rebecca Hall and Dominic West 2012-08-17T15:17:32Z They include cartoons, a series of detective stories modeled on Conan Doyle and several issues of an illustrated horror magazine called Shudder. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z “I read so many detective stories that one day I told Woodrow in a state of alarm that I had suddenly found myself thinking in terms of crime,” she later wrote. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z As much as your film is about a great and undiscovered artist and her work, it also seems to be a kind of detective story. Probing the Mysteries of a Photographer and Her Images 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z It stands up as both a melancholy mood piece and satisfying detective story, offbeat but grounded by a shifting yet constant sense of dread, even in the blazing sunshine. I’ve never seen … Chinatown 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Because “End of Watch” is a breathless detective story, it’s built around a very specific mystery. Review: In Stephen King’s ‘End of Watch,’ a Murderer’s Victims Kill Themselves 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z In fact, if you know anything about Poe, you know he wrote what are considered the first detective stories, one in particular starring an observational sleuth who was almost certainly the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Comics: Revisiting Sacco-Vanzetti case and Poe mysteries 2011-08-16T22:43:04Z The mystery that follows is part detective story of earthbound sleuthing and part investigation into the otherworldly realm of ghosts and the undead. Nobody Expects Michael Palin: A Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Eco makes his intellectual riddles accessible by weaving them into an intriguing detective story. The Times' 1983 review of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose:' An intriguing detective story 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Part detective story, part coming-of-age tale, Sánchez’s novel doesn’t shy from heavy subject matter. Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But is it significant that they are all assigned the last names of detective story authors, as most readers, including Susan, will notice? Review | Agatha Christie fans, take note: Anthony Horowitz has a clever new twist on the classic whodunit 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It is also a nature documentary about behavior at the very top of the imperial food chain and a detective story about the search for a mystery that is hidden in plain sight. Movie Review: Deciphering Donald H. Rumsfeld in ‘The Unknown Known’ 2014-04-01T22:00:03Z It was years ago now that I’d wandered into a warren-like used bookstore in Silver Spring, looking for detective stories similar to Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” and “Farewell, My Lovely.” Review | Years ago I wandered into a used book store and a man named X handed me this gem 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It became a forensic detective story of sorts. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z Persuasively ambivalent as a hero of westerns, war movies and detective stories, Mr. Garner’s performances may have reflected his feelings about his profession. James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z “Russian Doll” is more a detective story, with elements of slapstick, sci-fi and even horror. ‘Russian Doll’: Programmer, Debug Thyself 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z We've recently become fascinated with detective stories from that part of the world, but you were one of the first. Branagh: Knighthood is 'surreal' 2012-06-18T14:03:34Z We are in the world of detective stories and mystery. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z “I lived around here when I wrote my first novel, a detective story.” High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking. ‘Coup 53’ Review: International Underhandedness, Still Mysterious 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “Imperfect Women” is not a conventional detective story, but an investigation into character and motivation. The Lies That Bind, and Break, a Friendship 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Anderson adapted the trippy 1970-era detective story from the Thomas Pynchon novel, and he got Bridges on board even before the script was completed. 'Inherent Vice' costume designer Mark Bridges on Pynchon's world 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z It was a detective story that was like an insanely complex puzzle. Probing the Mysteries of a Photographer and Her Images 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Oh, I did enjoy that detective story of yours. Robert Robinson obituary letters 2011-08-17T11:30:32Z It may seem anomalous that the literary form that gave the best opportunity for displaying this enraptured gratitude was the detective story, filled as it is with murder, guilt and corpses. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z This production from the Dublin-based Dead Centre company, which runs through Nov. 2 at the Abrons Arts Center, is the antithesis of the classic detective story and its satisfying solutions. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Blood red boots added to the detective story glamour. Special Report: Fashion: Brazil, Film Noir and Shoes 'To Die For' 2011-02-23T18:46:29Z “I do not mind detective stories if I can get a good one,” William Howard Taft admitted. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z She herself ends by quoting another great writer of detective stories, Raymond Chandler, on the peculiar consolations offered by detective fiction – its solutions to life's puzzles. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z Dorothy Sayers, alas, has wearied of the detective story and has turned her attention elsewhere. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z Once McKay reaches the 17th century, when anatomists finally noticed the resemblance to elephants, the mystery of mammoths becomes one of the great detective stories in the history of science. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The police are investigating the case energetically enough to question Grace, but they’re about as ineffectual as detective story police get: They seem to forget about the killing halfway through the story. Books of The Times: ‘You Should Have Known’ Is Jean Hanff Korelitz’s New Novel 2014-03-26T20:50:10Z Ide mentions that Sherlock Holmes is the first literary detective, but it was in fact Edgar Allan Poe who wrote the first detective stories, four decades before Arthur Conan Doyle. Kink, Frankenstein and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “One of the greatest things this movie showed was almost like a detective story showing how Saturday Night Live was just stolen from the National Lampoon, lock, stock, and barrel,” says Reiss. National Lampoon: the magazine that became a comedy empire 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Jumping across time and space is tough, thankless business in “Predestination,” a slab of science-fiction speculation draped in old-fashioned detective story crepe. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Like many detective stories, “Ruben Brandt, Collector” moves backward and forward. ‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Review: Stealing Inspiration From Great Art 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Ben H. Winters’s apocalyptic detective story “The Last Policeman” contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The best in kind rely not just on the bidding of dusty memories, but also on the pursuit of new information: part remembrance, part detective story compelled by a sudden void that must be filled. Ismail Kadare Attributes His Writer’s Gift to His Mother 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z We’ve got a detective story in the style of Scandinavian police drama. In ‘Black Mirror,’ Sci-Fi That Feels Close to Home 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z "Meddling Kids" is the perfect horror detective story for an era in which the national mood can best be described as dread. Beach reads for dark summer days: 7 books to soothe the burn 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z How Looser discovered Henry’s abolition activism is a scholarly detective story. Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Though her written work has been more Allen Ginsberg than Agatha Christie, Smith said she has "loved detective stories" since she was a child. Patti Smith writing detective novel 2011-01-27T10:13:03Z The show, gathered mostly from top-tier museums and private collections, is a rare offering and an archaeological detective story. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z I wanted to write a detective story about a detective whose brain disorder is unhelpful. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z A few other things, really, including a fish-out-of-water comedy and a twisty detective story, with Ben as both fish and gumshoe. ‘Vengeance’ Review: A Dish Best Served With Frito Pie 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z He designates the lowly pun as the kernel from which all other forms of wit grow—puns, he proposes, are “compressed detective stories,” yoking strange associates together. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “One means by which I forget is to get a rattling good detective story, get after some imaginary offender and chase him all over — preferably any continent but this.” The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Poe is credited with writing the first modern detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which appeared in 1841 in Graham's Magazine, where Poe worked as an editor. Edgar Allan Poe's UVa room to undergo renovation 2011-04-28T14:28:09Z “The detective story is not about murder,” P. D. James has written, “but the restoration of order.” Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside,’ a South Los Angeles Murder Case 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He’s written books that are beautifully put together detective stories, set in dreamlike cities that bear little resemblance to the real ones with which they share names. For a doorstopper, Paul Auster's '4 3 2 1' is surprisingly light 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z I have enjoyed writing detective stories, and I think the austerity and stern discipline that goes to making a "tight" detective plot is good for one's thought processes. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z They are undoubtedly the greatest short detective stories yet written. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z It was moody for sure — a detective story whose unease came from efficient musical motifs and natural, if plain spoken, recitative. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z And yet, unlikely — in the strangest, most compelling sense — is what David B. is after in this project, which merges a detective story with the kind of philosophical arcana that marks, say, the Illuminatus! David B. continues the secret history of 'Incidents in the Night' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z I wanted to write a detective story where the plot keeps getting interrupted by this person's inability to live in the world in the way that she wants to. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The search is like a detective story, filled with dead-end plotlines and gripping diversions that get her no closer to her quarry. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s one of the many meta moments in “Magpie Murders,” a Russian doll murder mystery that sets a 1950s fictional detective story inside a contemporary inquiry into the death of the author who wrote it. ‘It’s a Labyrinth’: A Meta Detective Story Comes to the Screen 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Speaking from his home in Malibu, Sawyer told me, "'The Maltese Falcon' was and continues to this day to be the seminal modern detective story." The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z But then, who has not felt a bit deflated upon completing a page-turning detective story? Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z Escape to the house and gardens in Devon where Agatha Christie went for holidays and found inspiration for some of her best-known detective stories. Traveling by Ear: 13 Podcasts for Wandering Souls 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z But it was my TV experience that taught me the art of writing a detective story. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z It’s an allegory for British postwar culture — but also a philosophical study of spectacle and death, and a detective story. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z This literary detective story began in the summer of 2009, when Jean-Christophe Cloutier, a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature, was working as an intern in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia. Harlem Renaissance Novel by Claude McKay Is Discovered 2012-09-14T22:57:55Z It mixes up a range of genres, including fantasy, sci-fi, horror, historical and the detective stories, with long philosophical disquisitions on the nature of religion and science. Anime for beginners: five TV series to get you started 2013-04-01T14:00:00Z She orders them from a Russian bookstore in Brooklyn, detective stories and histories. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z He’d had a great success with Polanski on “Rosemary’s Baby,” and had to talk him into directing a mere detective story. It’s ‘Chinatown,’ Jake. On Second Thought, Don’t Forget It. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The book was a thin, 148-page detective story titled “Call for the Dead,” published in 1961 when the author was just starting his work as a spy for MI6 in Bonn. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Forrester was the pseudonym of James Redding Ware, author of a number of other detective stories. No1 in ladies' detective tradition back in print after 150 years 2012-10-09T15:04:07Z Confined to his quarters and bored, he read the only two detective stories available and decided he could outdo them. Colin Dexter, British author who created the Inspector Morse series, dies at 86 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote his share of detective stories, noted that “the solution of a mystery is always less impressive than the mystery itself.” Film: An Indie Gumshoe in Oregon?s Gloom 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z The second series of the modern day version of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories ended on a cliffhanger, with Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes apparently falling to his death from a building. Sherlock series three: creators give clues about episodes 2012-08-24T15:35:19Z Although Devine's history explodes myths and foregrounds the prosaic realities of emigration, it has the fascinating charm of a detective story. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z We all regret it, for she was such an exceptionally good detective story writer and a delightfully witty one. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z Listening to the detective story was the only situation in which the women’s attention was directed away from their food. Your brain is making you fat! 2014-01-01T19:00:00Z In the show, a modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes’ detective stories, Watson’s ethnicity is never an issue. Hooray for Joan Watson: Why well-rounded Asian-American characters matter 2014-01-22T23:59:00Z That is only the beginning of a compelling moral detective story in which both sides, not always telling the truth, are interviewed by a judge. The Week Ahead: Dec. 25 ? 31 2011-12-25T00:22:25Z For some reason people who write thrillers and detective stories tend to come under pressure but literary writers don't. Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z The novel is in equal measure a gripping detective story and a disquieting work of speculative fiction. Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The authorship of “Double Falsehood” poses a consummate literary detective story, and there is little consensus on whodunit. A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z To follow a detective story closely you need concentration. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z On my last night I saw “Arcadia,” Tom Stoppard’s much-produced literary detective story, at the Gate, which is known chiefly for producing European and American classics. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z And in real life it isn't, and in modern detective stories, especially mine, it isn't restored, but in most classical detective stories it is restored. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z Chandler found Hammett too good to copy, but admired him for “giving the detective story back to people who commit murder for a purpose and not just to provide a corpse.” ‘The World of Raymond Chandler,’ Edited by Barry Day 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z I like detective stories, but an endless diet of them, with nothing in between, would be intolerable. Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z “It’s a boy’s adventure wrapped in a detective story tucked inside a nuclear allegory surrounded by a dystopian fable.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Akira' 2011-03-28T21:56:05Z Head for “Spotlight,” which Mr. Scott describes as “a gripping detective story and a superlative newsroom drama.” What to Do This Weekend 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s a detective story, and yet not really. 'Inherent Vice,' 'Dear White People,' and The Most Underrated Films of 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “He was trying to be Raymond Chandler the activist, rather than Raymond Chandler the detective story writer.” Unearthed Raymond Chandler Story Rebukes U.S. Health Care System 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s a detective story of sorts, with Mr. Matar trying to piece together what happened to his father after his arrest. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Although there’s a murder at the heart of “Imperfect Women,” it’s not a conventional detective story. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Politics, race, acting, history, religion, arts, the environment, detective stories, whatever the new fiction is, plus poor old Auden and Walt Whitman, who have been patiently standing by for years. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z And it made him an especially suitable central figure for the detective story niche in which he lived, where whodunit was irrelevant and how-it-was-done paramount. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z So much of this episode — a disappointing one whose pedestrian detective story climaxes with a bathetic confrontation — boiled down to waiting to see if and how Jones would handle breaking the difficult news to Cage. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 6: The Truth Comes Out 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s a political thriller with an almost infinite tolerance for tedium, a detective story with an obvious culprit, a courtroom procedural caught up in irrelevant details. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z This week, the singer revealed she has completed "68%" of a "detective story" based in England. Patti Smith writing detective novel 2011-01-27T10:13:03Z Lost to Her Friends, but There All the Time To what extent are even the most exhaustive biographies unsolved detective stories? Movie Review: ‘Dreams of a Life’ Looks at Joyce Vincent 2012-08-02T20:52:19Z And an adventure story and a detective story. Review: ‘The Tailor of Inverness,’ a Father-Son Tale at Brits Off Broadway 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z An elegant, unfussy writer, he compresses years of analysis into short chapters that feel like minimalist, suspenseful detective stories. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Readers of Freud’s writings on dreams are often drawn to his accounts of decrypting his patients’ puzzling nocturnal imaginings, which read like virtuosic detective stories. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z That Carlos is writing a detective story — one we catch glimpses of throughout — adds additional fuel to the engine of genre that playfully powers the book. In 'Loquela,' Carlos Labbé dives into the rabbit hole of fiction, alarm clock in hand 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Since I have been writing detective stories for a quarter of a century and have some 40-odd novels to my credit, I may lay claim at least to being an industrious craftsman. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z That’s also what detective stories do, although French’s are known for refusing to tie absolutely everything up with a tidy bow. “Broken Harbor”: Suburban gothic 2012-07-22T22:00:00Z He also adored detective stories, keeping a volume on his nightstand and with him on train trips. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Christie: 'A detective story is an escape from the realism of everyday life.' Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z The film relates the tale as a detective story, but one that is also a sociological study — of a region that takes its Christianity seriously, and of individual families in a hardscrabble area. ‘Little Hope Was Arson,’ a Documentary of Texas and Religion 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The film moves from detective story to courtroom drama with nicely sketched character studies as a bonus; Piller’s marriage is suffering because he can’t accept his own wife’s undercover work during the war. ‘The Last Vermeer’ Review: A Lost Masterpiece Is Only the Beginning 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Childhood is a kind of detective story, our parents the possible crime. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z As for “Murders,” it is, after all, a detective story, a genre that is set up to deliver case after case. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, WH Auden, another addict, draws several parallels between the Greek tragedy and the detective story. The mystery of theatre's missing detective plays 2011-07-28T13:34:14Z Like many a detective story, this one has some loose ends. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps Unbelievable works, too, as a corrective on old detective story tropes. Unbelievable: the quiet power of Netflix's fact-based rape drama 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But the shame is that ultimately it's a detective story without resolution. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z “You are used to seeing an Asian face in detective stories, as the Dragon Lady, or as a delivery worker or as a scientist,” but not as a home cook. Four Decades on, Martin Yan Faces a New Audience and a New World 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The result, “The Postcard,” recreates in stunning detail the lives of Berest’s lost family members and weaves them into a detective story, loosely centered on the postcard. An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z But “The Search for General Tso” is a detective story devoted to the art of un-blurring and disentangling: the “t” from the “so,” the meat from the myth. Searching for America with General Tso 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Enormously long books, too heavy to hold when I’m reading in bed, are a no-no, nor do I ever read thrillers, detective stories or murder mysteries — they just don’t interest me. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Friedman’s work is less theological than Kugel’s and more a historical detective story. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z At the same time, it’s evolving into a kind of sexual detective story, with Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan prepping to investigate a series of carnal mysteries: it’s Bones, but as a verb. Plateau Stage: Masters of Sex Figures Itself Out 2013-11-04T13:45:39Z This mythical character exists mostly in old westerns, hard-boiled detective stories, action flicks and science fiction. Eastwood, Wayne, Gosling -- Hollywood's lone wolves 2011-09-17T00:01:00Z This is a modern fairy tale and detective story, which has a good measure of darkness and adventure at its core, and avoids moral undertones. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z In fact, like other fixed forms, such as the sonnet and the pastoral, the detective story should be judged according to the beauty and elegance of its execution. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith They are an entrancing hybrid of the literary novel/detective story. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z But as Viv puts it, this detective story features a “femme fatale — the one who shows up with a story full of holes and you, the cynic and the sap, still follow her.” Deborah Shapiro’s ‘The Sun in Your Eyes’: A musical whodunit 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “In detective stories, unlike in real life, it all makes sense.” The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z And as I never liked fantasy and I've never liked science fiction, I suppose that leaves for one's comfort reading the detective story. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered the first modern detective story. Poe fans call an end to 'Toaster' tradition 2012-01-19T12:58:10Z Graham Greene says, in Ways of Escape that Brighton Rock began in 1937 "as a detective story" and "continued as an error of judgment". Brighton Rock's themes are too big for the screen 2011-02-07T12:04:15Z Beryl's literary fiction can have a quality of a detective story: only when we reach a novel's final denouement do we see that we were given the key to its coded mystery at the start. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, however, could never quite understand why his detective stories excited such hoopla. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z “It’s a perfect story. It has the human element, the music aspect, a resurrection and a detective story.” Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Dies; Directed ‘Sugar Man’ Movie 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Because there's so many detective stories about obsessive people who are brilliant detectives because of their obsessiveness and my experience with obsessiveness has been more or less the complete opposite. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Her imagination was formed by reading, whether comics, detective stories or “The Wizard of Oz.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z How the diary emerged reads like a detective story, with Zoya Eroshok, a prominent Russian journalist, spending years piecing together the identity of its author and her fate. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Indeed it seems that Chesterton was at first occupied with making a joke in which he wrote detective stories where the aim was to puzzle out who the real detective is. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z Here Mr. Anderson explains the thinking that went into one extended scene in this shaggy detective story. Closer Look at an Underdog 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s structured like a detective story: it starts with a murder – a Hell’s Angel stabs somebody who seems to have a gun in the audience – and then you go back in time. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The first season spins a satisfying detective story. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z As in a good detective story, many clues have disappeared with time. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps other aficionados of classic detective stories will recognize his name, but until recently I had never heard of him. Reading for a winter’s night: The detective fiction of Todd Downing 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The longest piece in “The Getaway Car” is an insider’s history of the hard-boiled detective story. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces Ruiz's intriguing meditation on the possibilities and limitations of the pictorial in the cinema is also a detective story with clues and a solution. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z It has the human element, the music aspect, a resurrection and a detective story.” A Film Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez 2012-07-20T15:58:26Z It's not likely there will ever be a definitive answer to the mystery, which is somewhat fitting for the man widely credited with inventing the detective story. 166 years after his mysterious death, Edgar Allan Poe still fascinates us 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z “Missing Person” is a kind of backwards detective story -- the saga of an investigator on the trail of his own identity. Patrick Modiano, the Nobel Prize and what (if anything) it means 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z There was some madcap charm to the earlier "Hoodwinked!" which reinterpreted the story of Red Riding Hood as a "Rashomon"-style detective story. Capsule reviews: `Fast Five,' `Prom' 2011-04-27T13:28:09Z The Affair may become absorbing as a detective story. Review: The Affair: More Than Meets the "I" 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Night Moves reunited him with Hackman for a Ross Macdonald-style detective story that purred with Penn's specialty, sexual tension, but otherwise couldn't escape the ordinary. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z The old detective story that's got a really complicated tortuous motive doesn't apply to mine. Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z It’s a detective story with some differences, however. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z “Heretics” is part history, part detective story, but its overarching theme is the tension between the limitless yearnings of the human spirit and the limitations of geography and politics. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The superiority of “Foyle’s War” isn’t based on the detective stories, which are as formulaic as those in any other British period mystery and sometimes downright silly. | 'Foyle?s War': ?Foyle?s War? Returns, Starring Michael Kitchen 2010-04-29T22:05:00Z But the flimsy detective story draped over them is underdeveloped and too sluggishly paced to take hold. ‘Go for Sisters’: Friendship gets second chance in noirish thriller 2014-01-09T21:14:14Z Dive into this tightly plotted detective story for details. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z And this is a good detective story, cheap reconstruction notwithstanding. A Great British Air Disaster; Beat the Ancestors – TV review 2013-02-25T07:00:18Z Still, it manages to create genuine suspense as a sort of psychological detective story. Books of The Times: Julian Barnes?s ?Sense of an Ending? ? Review 2011-10-16T22:27:23Z Offutt’s book is something of a literary detective story interwoven with memories of a youth riddled with sexual confusion and inarticulate yearning. ‘My Father, the Pornographer’: A literary detective story 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The plot is a multilevel, armchair detective story. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's hippie detective story premiered last month at the New York Film Festival. Is AFI Fest's opener the awards-season version of the SI cover jinx? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Despite the "summary" feel of the final chapters, this is an intriguing detective story. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-06-21T16:50:01Z As a detective story, the eight-episode season is middling, and by its end, the reason to revive this particular franchise remains, well, a mystery. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z If you’re a fan of traditional detective stories, “The Derek Smith Omnibus” will have you scratching your little gray cells and purring with pleasure. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith In his review for The New York Times, Ben Kenigsberg wrote, “Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trinkets’ and ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But his being an undercover detective does not make this a detective story. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z For me, these creations were like detective stories. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z The essence of a detective story is that it shall be "natural" in its setting and characters. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z The theft has kept the country enthralled ever since, with its heady mix of priceless art and scintillating detective story. Art's perfect theft: the `Ghent Altarpiece' 2012-11-19T10:46:03Z Not for nothing, however, does Howard write pulpy detective stories: a clever mirroring of the play’s twisting narrative paths. Review: ‘The Mystery of Love and Sex’ Looks at Identity and Secrets Too 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z What may be amazing to those who know him only in the context of dung beetles was that Nichols was also a successful author of children’s books and detective stories. | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z Real detectives and detective stories are entangled from the very beginning. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z Brilliant, musical and interested in theology, Sayers astonished her classmates when she became a professional writer of detective stories. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z This transformation may frustrate audience members who’ve gotten caught up in the detective story and would appreciate a little more closure. Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Still, Lem admitted to a weakness for detective stories and wrote one himself, “The Chain of Chance,” a novel as much about probability and chaos theory as it is a whodunit. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Eliot, well known for his love of detective stories. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z First and last, though, this is a detective story, a hard-boiled murder mystery, and it delivers in high style. Review | Philip Kerr’s posthumous gift: A classic crime novel that delivers in high style 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Advertisement “Our Mother’s Brief Affair” is the sort of everyday detective story in which the prolific Mr. Greenberg has long specialized, in works that include the excellent “Three Days of Rain” and “The Assembled Parties.” Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z CBS brought new show "Elementary," a modern interpretation of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, as well as Comic-Con's favorite TV nerds from the network's "The Big Bang Theory." "Game of Thrones" in focus among TV shows at Comic-Con 2012-07-14T01:04:33Z Following genre conventions is not necessarily a sign of failure — some of the best movies ever are perfectly orthodox westerns, detective stories, melodramas and marriage comedies — and flouting them is not in itself a virtue. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z Woven throughout this detective story is a tale of star-crossed lovers, divided by class and war. Fiction That Takes You Back in Time 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The opening epigraph, identifying the infectious nature of "detective-fever", comes from Collins's great detective story The Moonstone. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z There, Chandler tries to account for the power of his early, relatively unsophisticated detective stories, many of them published some 20 years before in pulp magazines: Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The result is a vibrant combination of romance, fantasy and detective story, unlike any of its predecessors. A fantastic leap – trans cinema's breakthrough moment 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “As a reader I’m done with literature,” Waldo declares as he asks Anita to read him one of his favorite detective stories again. A Novel of the Horndog in Winter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The show's third season, consisting of three 90-minute episodes that offer a contemporary telling of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories, became Britain's most-watched TV series this century. Emmys 2014: 'Sherlock' wins? It's elementary, dear Watson 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z His example made detective stories a respectable diversion. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The opera unfolds like a detective story, as his wife, his doctor and his care-giver try, and fail, to understand Mr D's agitation. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z By contrast, detective stories — whodunits, cozies, Golden Age puzzles — are commonly dismissed as utterly artificial and old-fashioned, mere entertainments of the most inconsequential and embarrassing sort. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith All these will be familiar to detective story aficionados. How many of the top 100 crimes novels of the early 20th century have you read? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z A new member of the extensive and entertaining fellowship of detective story writers, Miss Dorothy L. Sayers presents as her initial offering a very ingenious tale. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But “The President Is Missing” belongs to a long tradition of chief executives devouring thrillers, mysteries and detective stories. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z A pop-culture savant with technique to spare, Johnson approaches the classic detective story with equal measures of breeziness and rigor. ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Another Clue for You All 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z If the locution “hard-boiled” had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters of Dashiell Hammett’s latest detective story. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He will follow the excavation of what could be the largest known dinosaur skeleton in Waking Giants, described as a "pre-historic detective story". New Attenborough films announced 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It manages to be both a great detective story and a great love story at the same time. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z A detective story is a way of dealing with the dark: it is about gathering and containing death and horror within a safe and predictable narrative structure. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Chesterton remarked that the "detective story differs from every story in this: that the reader is only happy if he feels a fool". Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z He is also credited with writing the first modern detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Nevermore? Poe grave visitor again a no-show 2011-01-19T15:03:55Z "That is completely disingenuous," adds mystery novelist Walter Mosley, who wrote an introduction for a book of Twain detective stories. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths. Carlos Monsiv?is obituary 2010-06-24T18:04:00Z Because it's Conan Doyle – and detective stories – he's treated as a second XI in literature. Conan Doyle expert mounts legal challenge to preserve author's home 2010-07-19T16:01:00Z Like “A Man Vanishes,” “Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia” plays out like a detective story. Shohei Imamura’s Documentaries at Anthology Film Archives 2012-11-09T23:03:37Z I believe that only those who write detective stories themselves can really appreciate his marvellous sleight of hand. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z Historical fiction, particularly detective fiction, and contemporary detective stories set outside New York City, perhaps because I don’t want even the most realistically rendered stories to intrude on my lived, quotidian reality. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z James said that the detective story/murder mystery "fundamentally is concerned with the bringing of order out of disorder." Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z “The Secret in Their Eyes,” which opens Friday in several American cities, is thus both a detective story and a tale of unrequited love. Origins of Oscar Winner ?The Secret in Their Eyes? 2010-04-14T22:16:00Z What results is a kind of detective story in which Klein’s search for the other Klein quickly becomes an existential search for himself. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Amadi’s journey, which is fueled by familial duty, quickly morphs into a propulsive detective story. ‘Shine Your Eyes’ Review: Reimagining São Paulo 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z In the best detective stories, the truth that’s uncovered isn’t limited to the name of the culprit. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Henderson offers a deeply researched look at the science of tsunamis, which becomes its own sort of geologic detective story, as scientists try to pin down the date of the last great Pacific Northwest earthquake. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z At Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, she studied under the influential critic Northrup Frye, a most literary scholar who nonetheless appreciated a good detective story. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Like most detective stories, “The Headlands” depends too much on the mere withholding and manipulation of information, but since that is Chen’s theme, you tend to excuse it. Review: ‘The Headlands’ Nods to San Francisco Noir 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z There are detective stories, and there are crime novels. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith His attack on what he called “detective stories” did nothing to deter the popularity of mysteries in print or onscreen. ‘Intrigo: Death of an Author’ Review: Many Mysteries, Fewer Thrills 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But it isn’t so much the detective story that makes “Things in Jars” such a triumph. Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s a quietly droll detective story, a warm portrait of a woman who lost her health and found her purpose, exhuming her self-respect along with Richard’s bones. ‘The Lost King’ Review: A Royal Obsession 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Although, as countless lesser detective stories prove, it’s difficult to convey that a character really is the smartest person in most rooms. They wanted to upend the TV detective formula. Enter the unassuming but formidable Darby Hart 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z A detective story emerges, with an Agatha Christie assortment of culprits, played out in a connect-the-dots fashion, with stakes that never seem weighty enough. Review: ‘The Engagement Party’s’ decor is sharper than its wit 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z So while there are tangents throughout “Monica” — an aging artist’s rant in one piece, a sort of detective story in another — Clowes returns repeatedly to the title character. How comics legend Daniel Clowes composed his 'magnum opus' 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Is this all the detective story is good for? Why Agatha Christie's mousetraps still beguile us, even if the films aren't always killer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Any proper estimation of the movie must begin with an appreciation of Grann’s painstakingly researched book, an intricately layered detective story that Scorsese and his co-writer, Eric Roth, try and sometimes struggle to condense. Cannes: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ grips, disturbs — and disappoints 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The 5th’s season will also include Disney classic “The Little Mermaid,” detective story spoof “Something’s Afoot” and coming-of-age rock musical “Spring Awakening,” with Irving Berlin’s music taking the stage for the holidays in “White Christmas.” What to know about recent announcements in Seattle theater 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Many researchers think of their work as a kind of detective story, where “interesting” means understanding an underlying hidden mechanism. Landslides Kill and Hurt Thousands, but Science Largely Ignores These Disasters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z But Jang, of the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, hopes the man considered to be the inventor of the detective story stays right where he is. Did voter fraud kill Edgar Allan Poe? 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z The film is a gripping detective story that traces how he was poisoned by Russian intelligence agents while on a speaking tour in Siberia, miraculously escaped death and returned to Moscow after treatment in Germany. Oscar-winning documentary ‘Navalny’ tells terrifying, timely tale 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Nearly all the interrogations end badly and bloodily; even by the standards of the classical detective story, Zhang Yimou and Chen Yu’s convoluted script boasts a hell of a body count. Review: The laughs and the corpses pile up in the Chinese blockbuster 'Full River Red' 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z What Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventures of Sherlock Holmes are to the detective story, M.R. Review | Why M.R. James is the Arthur Conan Doyle of supernatural fiction 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z To Cooper, it was a risk to adapt a detective story unfolding around the very man who bequeathed detective fiction to the world. 'The Pale Blue Eye' explained: Inside Netflix's new Edgar Allan Poe mystery 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z We’re going from an interview to a Gothic film to a sleazy detective story, sometimes to the film within the film and sometimes to behind-the-scenes moments. The most memorable narratives of 2022 were the ones that were playable 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z She also introduces Eliza to Edgar Allan Poe’s detective stories, starting with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Review | Jane Smiley’s latest is full of surprises, beginning with its premise 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Park Hae-il, “Decision to Leave”: Tang Wei is so good as the Hitchcockian heroine in Park Chan-wook’s sublime detective story that it’s easy to underestimate the guy actually playing the detective. Oscars 2023: Actor power rankings 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z But if “Knives Out’s” manor house full of rotten apples hews close to the classical detective story template, the suspects in “Glass Onion” feel drawn to more contemporary specifications. Review: As all-star whodunits go, 'Glass Onion' has enormous appeal 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z An estimated 76 million households streamed the lively detective story in its first four weeks. From ‘Enola Holmes’ to ‘Extraction,’ Netflix bets on sequels 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z As in a classic noir detective story, we watch Ness fall apart, but there’s no redemption here. Review | The grisly Cleveland murders that unraveled Eliot Ness 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Symons’s “Bloody Murder” — retitled “Mortal Consequences” in the United States — has for half a century been, for all its flaws, the standard history of the detective story. Review | Martin Edwards’s ‘The Life of Crime’ will thrill mystery fans 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “Three Minutes: A Lengthening” is a snapshot, a memorial, a knotty philosophical detective story and a devastating account of Nazi atrocities. Review: The haunting Holocaust doc 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' finds mystery in minutiae 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "Like any good detective story, you never find the person responsible standing over the body with the smoking gun in her hand," David Sherborne, Rooney's lawyer, told the court. 'WAGatha Christie' libel trial verdict due 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z We wanted to write a modern-day detective story, but one that doesn’t take place in any of the cool parts of L.A. How 'Welcome to Night Vale' went from an unlikely scripted podcast to a live show phenomenon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The search for the plague’s origin “is like a detective story,” said Dr. Fissell, who was not involved in the new study. Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue. 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Start reading this history of the detective story — from Poe to P.D. Review | Martin Edwards’s ‘The Life of Crime’ will thrill mystery fans 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “I would not have tried to write a serious saga about a Black family. It’s different in a detective story because plot is so important.” James Patterson feels the heat after saying white men face 'another form of racism' 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The detective story is also a period piece tracing Latter-day Saints history and the journey of founding prophet Joseph Smith. 'It's designed to make us look alien': Mormons decry 'Under the Banner of Heaven' 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z “Under the Banner of Heaven” is more than just a true crime detective story. How 'Under the Banner of Heaven' got Mormon history right. Down to the 'bullet holes' 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z I love a horrific detective story about a ritualistic double murder in fundamentalist Mormon country as much as the next guy, but the reviews for Hulu’s “Under the Banner of Heaven” aren’t all that great. Emmys 2022 preview: Where does your favorite TV show stand? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Walker has altered the subtitle for this collection to “And Other Stories of the French Countryside,” because these are not detective stories, although they are about a popular detective. Review | Dreaming of France? Two new mystery novels will feed your fantasies. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The expanded canvas enlarges the field of investigation — as before, this is a sort of detective story — which grows geographically as well, to encompass Berlin and Budapest, Hungary. ‘Russian Doll’ didn't need a second season, but the series pulls it off beautifully 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Nearly every Weerasethakul movie can be approached as a kind of mystery, but “Memoria” is his first to present itself so explicitly as a detective story. Review: ‘Memoria’ is one of the greatest movies you’ll see — or hear — in a theater this year 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The series, premiering Friday on Apple TV+, is a not-always-easy mix of sentimental relationship story, detective story and late-life retrospective drama, with a central narrative device that qualifies as science fiction. In 'Ptolemy Grey,' Samuel L. Jackson spins an uplifting Alzheimer's tale 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “I think it’s a detective story of the highest caliber.” The Dinosaur Age May Have Ended in Springtime 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z But nearly a century on from detective stories’ “Golden Age,” a big-budget, big-screen adaptation needs to add meaningful value to keep from flogging a dead body. Review: Page-to-Screen: Kenneth Branaugh misses the boat in 'Death on the Nile' 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The result is both a study in historical amnesia and a kind of epistemological detective story, in which the grim truth is as hard to refute as it is hard to prove. Sex positivity, abortion rights and volcanic eruptions among seven early gems at a virtual Sundance 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The book reads like a detective story; two main issues shape its narrative. Review | Jewish families, Nazi plunder and cultural amnesia in France 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z As suggested by the book’s title, Dr. Spence approached China as if writing a detective story, deciphering for Western readers one of the world’s largest, most populous and complex countries. Jonathan D. Spence, acclaimed scholar of China, dies at 85 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z As suggested by the book’s title, Spence approached China as if writing a detective story, deciphering for Western readers one of the world’s largest, most populous and complex countries. Jonathan D. Spence, popular China scholar, dead at age 85 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Janis is also the lead sleuth in what turns out to be a historical and genealogical detective story, as signaled by the bristling, thriller-esque touches in Alberto Iglesias’ exquisitely moving score. Review: 'Parallel Mothers,' with a superb Penélope Cruz, is Pedro Almodóvar at his best 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z And yet… there’s something about its blend of detective story, MCU action, and charming Christmas vibe that just works. Hawkeye’s first season is a welcome holiday surprise 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Whitehead has worked in this genre before, if less explicitly; his 1999 debut, “The Intuitionist,” was a speculative, postmodern detective story set in the nebulous world of New York City elevator inspection. Colson Whitehead just wants to have fun 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s often structured like a fantasy detective story. The Witcher’s anime spinoff keeps the bathtub, but adds a fun-loving lead 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Trese is one of the most interesting new shows on Netflix, a gritty detective story set in a modern-day Manilla beset by all kinds of supernatural forces. Trese mashes a police procedural with a sinister supernatural world 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Narratively speaking, the most pleasurable aspect of these films is the way they function as paranormal detective stories, knottily intricate puzzles in which the battle for the human soul also becomes a battle of wits. Review: The devil can't make you watch this so-so 'Conjuring' sequel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The story is structured a bit like a detective story, at least at first, with the two investigating a bunch of shady people connected to the Ronin. Hawkeye’s first season is a welcome holiday surprise 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z “This is a fall drama on ABC, or this is a family comedy, or this is a detective story.” The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z As part of a broader cultural movement, literary crime fiction took off in the 1980s after the success of Carlos G Reigosa’s detective story Crime en Compostela. Galician noir: how a rainy corner of Spain spawned a new TV genre 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z “I wrote a detective story — a five- or six-page detective story — at the age of 10. And that was 80 years ago!” W. Royal Stokes has lived a jazz life as unpredictable as the music 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z “The Father,” in other words, is both a detective story and a study in confinement, a mystery set within the labyrinthine recesses of a deteriorating mind. Review: 'The Father' showcases Anthony Hopkins at his devastating best 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “Boys mostly like to read detective stories such as Sherlock Holmes, while girls prefer to read youth novels and biographies,” he said. Books by bike: Sri Lankan man runs mobile library for kids 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Dr. Perkins was described as a ravenous reader whose interests ranged from the detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle to the military treatise “The Art of War” by the ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu. Edward J. Perkins, first Black U.S. ambassador to South Africa, dies at 92 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Schwarz embeds her appeal to citizens and nations to do memory work in a gripping detective story centered on her own family’s history. Review | A memoir of a family’s Holocaust complicity, with lessons for today 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z In the late ’90s, he won international attention with his movie “Cure,” a chillingly bleak detective story about a series of gruesome murders that spread through Tokyo like a virus. A Famed Horror Director Mines Japan’s Real-Life Atrocities 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z A: Right now I’m reading “The Feral Detective” by Jonathan Lethem, a brilliant female detective story by one of our greatest writers. ’10 Things I Hate About You’ screenwriter, former Washington resident Kirsten Smith shares her literary picks 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z He dabbled in science fiction and detective stories, an indulgence allowed, perhaps, by his propensity for 16-hour workdays. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who brought the Talmud within reach of millions, dies at 83 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z The show takes its name from a 1957 CBS series that focused on the eponymous criminal defense attorney from author Erle Stanley Gardner’s detective stories. Perry Mason doesn’t quite justify its lavish reboot 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Each member of the team described their painstaking part in this extraordinary detective story. We may have found life on Mars 24 years ago 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “COVID is unfolding like a detective story, and we sit waiting for the next evidence,” he says. TV in the time of COVID-19: Why we flock to stories of pandemics and other disasters 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z This detailed investigation of the painter’s crisis is as compelling as a detective story in its trawl through the archives to resolve inconsistencies in the contemporary accounts. From sorcerers to samurai: best books to transport you to other worlds 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z It is a detective story of controversial ideas, new discoveries and hard lessons for today. What can the 'plague village' of Eyam teach us? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s a detective story of sorts, a puzzle that you piece together alongside its dogged protagonist, but a puzzle that ultimately proves as insoluble as human nature itself. Review: 'A White, White Day' delivers a superb psychological puzzle worth piecing together 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z So began an extraordinary scientific detective story whose effects are still being debated today. We may have found life on Mars 24 years ago 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The tale of their discovery is a detective story in itself. Madonna in full meltdown a moment to be cherished | Rebecca Nicholson 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z She moved on to write detective stories under the pseudonym MC Beaton. Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin creator dies 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z In Greenberg’s capable hands, the twists and turns of the attribution process are not tech-laden and confusing, but instead become tantalizing clues in a detective story. Review | The ruthless Russian hacking unit that tried to crash Ukraine 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z On the subway, she asks me to tell her a detective story. The Case of the Angry Daughter 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Every good detective story is to some degree a skillful exercise in reverse engineering, moving backward from breathtaking revelations to head-scratching premises. Review: Edward Norton's 1950s noir 'Motherless Brooklyn' unravels a muddled New York conspiracy 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Lethem lets loose a riot of language across the subsequent pages, remaking a classic detective story with an uncontrollable flow of words. Review: In ‘Motherless Brooklyn,’ ‘Chinatown’ goes East 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z This discovery also reminds us that much still remains to be learnt in the next gripping chapter of this detective story. Early tetrapods had an eye on the land 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z So this is becoming quite the detective story. Plot twist? Whistle-blower says Trump aides disturbed by Ukraine call 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The one other durable clue G. has provided is her ongoing, and unceasing, interest in detective stories. The Case of the Angry Daughter 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z I have long been fascinated by detective stories. Behind the Story: I wanted to know how a Texas Ranger got a serial killer to spill his secrets 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Her imagination was formed by reading, whether comics, detective stories or “The Wizard of Oz.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z This gripping, puzzling series begins with you, and your own transformation from someone who believed that a diagnosis was always a finite thing, like solving a math problem, to it becoming a detective story. "Diagnosis" doctor Lisa Sanders: "This is a detective story" 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Italy’s RAI state TV, which produced wildly popular TV versions of his detective stories, interrupted its programming to announce his death. Andrea Camilleri, Italian author of Montalbano detective series, dies at 93 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z She makes me and her father tell her detective stories on the subway. The Case of the Angry Daughter 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Italian RAI state TV, which produced wildly popular TV versions of his detective stories, interrupted its programming to announce his death and comment on his works. Camilleri, author of Montalbano detective series, dies at 93 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z At Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, she studied under the influential critic Northrup Frye, a most literary scholar who nonetheless appreciated a good detective story. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Judgment, which launches next week on the PS4, is similar to Yakuza in a lot of ways, but it’s also a hard-boiled detective story. How the creators of Yakuza turned hard-boiled detective drama into a game 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z “The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth” reads like a detective story. Review | Piecing together the real woman behind Reagan’s ‘welfare queen’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z As a genre, the detective story has often found popularity at moments of great social upheaval, as if it somehow helps to make overwhelming trauma more manageable. The Case of the Angry Daughter 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z BOULDER, Colo.—Scientists, governments and environmental groups are focused on what may be the first global detective story about emissions. Mystery Solved: Warming Superpollutant Tracked to China 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s like a detective story right now,” said Mark, the commercial pilot. Boeing has called its 737 Max 8 ‘not suitable’ for certain airports 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Photo courtesy of Paul Steinhardt We decided to pursue it, and, well, the next two years were a detective story to trace the origin of that little rock with various twists and turns. Inside the 30-year quest to find a new state of matter 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It includes a little detective story, told by a fellow chemist, of how intermittent batches of silver nitrate papers supplied for X-ray imagery were spoilt. In his element: looking back on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z As her fame grew, her passion for military history, crossword puzzles and detective stories became public knowledge. Sister Wendy Beckett, celebrity BBC art historian, dies at 88 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z As a kid and as an adult, too, I’ve always loved detective stories, mysteries, puzzles; it’s just how my mind works. I Would Hang Up on Mayor de Blasio: This ‘Girl Detective’ Says She Won’t Be Pushed Around 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Goldman found early success with this detective story based on the novel by Ross McDonald. How to stream 'Butch Cassidy,' 'The Princess Bride' and more of William Goldman's best films 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Characters leap between decades, the twisty-turvy machinations of any good detective story are in play, and Bell is also trying to navigate her contentious relationship with her daughter. Destroyer is a guilt-ridden detective story made by an incredible director 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z “All the President’s Men,” Woodward’s first collaboration with Bernstein, was at its heart a detective story, and the trail of evidence led the reporters into the Oval Office. With “Fear” and Trump, Bob Woodward Has a Bookend to the Nixon Story 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Her emails to me about this project read like a detective story. Perspective | What’s a library without books? Go to some schools, and that’s what you will find. 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The result is a genuine political detective story, as involving as it is significant, offering specifics from people who have been there about a modern affliction we ignore at our peril. Political detective story 'Dark Money' tracks the harm from secretive campaign contributions 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The tricky, twisty structure of this documentary, a scientific and philosophical inquiry by way of a detective story, suggests a joyous earthquake followed by a series of grim, unsettling aftershocks. 'Three Identical Strangers' is a riveting account of identical triplets separated at birth 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It says her detective stories possess original plots and irony in their description of characters, as well as abundant imagination. French crime writer wins Spanish literature prize 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet at its core this is a detective story. Family bond preserves John Wooden’s Purdue jersey 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It's an archaeological detective story that began on a building site in Sydney and ended on the banks of the River Thames in London. The Aboriginal tools forged from early British ships 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z He was 31, ill with tuberculosis and supporting his wife and child with VA disability payments and a variety of writings, from detective stories to poetry and criticism. A long-lost Dashiell Hammett story has been reissued 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “It was a real detective story — and heartbreaking to me, at times.” Amy Tan visiting Seattle to read from ‘Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The picture is a detective story, with Gosling’s blade runner, called K early on and Joe later, trudging the fog-shrouded, rain-soaked streets of oppressively crowded and dingy Los Angeles and environs. ‘Blade Runner 2049’ review: Imaginative sequel keeps up with the original 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The larger apparatus detracts from what is, at heart, a detective story - and a fairly good one, at that. Review: Gorgeous ‘2049’ breaks the ‘Blade Runner’ spell 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Approaching the study of art in terms of detective stories, and then studying detective stories involving works of art, has been my academic focus. Caravaggio the criminal: The violent life and crimes of an artistic genius 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s a detective story, it’s a supernatural story, it’s a movie about young adults. Adam Wingard explains how Netflix saved Death Note 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z “The Cooking Gene” is part history of American slavery, part memoir and part personal detective story. Tracing his urge to cook through slavery and the South 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z It seems like a simple but neat twist on the traditional detective story, with the sci-fi elements making it all a bit more fun. 9 new trailers you should watch this week 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z A: It’s a bit of a detective story. Thousand-year-old Viking fortress reveals a technologically advanced society 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Plebuch would turn out to be uniquely suited to the role of private eye in her own detective story. She thought she was Irish — until a DNA test opened a 100-year-old mystery 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Among sub-literary genres, perhaps only the traditional detective story has a reliable moral arc, even if it will give our robot an utterly misanthropic view of human behaviour. We need robots to have morals. Could Shakespeare and Austen help? | John Mullan 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The series — an adaptation of the comic Fables — debuted way back in 2014, and introduced an intriguing detective story set in a dark fairytale world. Telltale Games announces new seasons of Batman, Walking Dead, and The Wolf Among Us 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Shot in evocative black and white, “Karl Marx City” is a sleek, absorbing detective story, a fascinating primer on mass surveillance in the pre-Snowden era, and a roving memoir of East German life. 'Karl Marx City' chillingly revisits life in the shadow of East Germany 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Ellis is not shy about his influences: he loves detective stories, particularly Sherlock Holmes, and he likes Nietzsche. Warren Ellis: 'Now everything is insane and I’m loving it' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Yet the over-all effect is as taut with tangible evidence as a detective story. The Hard Bargain of “Personal Shopper” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Although not as politically charged as “Elah,” “The Yellow Birds” also takes the form of a detective story, albeit one in which the mystery is as drearily protracted as it is ultimately unpersuasive. Sundance: ‘Mudbound’ and ‘The Yellow Birds’ examine the toll of war 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Plots, especially the solution-hungry plots of detective stories, give meaning to the flotsam and jetsam of lived experience. Paul Auster’s Novel of Chance 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Snare’s endeavours to authenticate “whodunit” create a gripping tale with as many twists and turns as a detective story, and ultimately his obsession becomes his downfall. Readers’ books of the year 2016 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Instead, he finds detective stories reassuring: “They are the promise that everything is going to make sense in the end,” he says, “which I find an oddly powerful thing.” Warren Ellis: 'Now everything is insane and I’m loving it' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z This brief hybrid of ghost tale and detective story is called “The Haunted Ceiling” and its author is H.G. From the dead: HG Wells ghost story published for first time 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z "And then it's a detective story about the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide: two subjects that occupy my life as an academic but also as a practising lawyer doing cases in international courts". Baillie Gifford Prize: Lawyer wins award for book about genocide - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Finding Marlowe: A detective story takes unexpected twist. On a sunny holiday, here are some of the darkest true-crime stories from California 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z It was enthusiastically reviewed by Ross McLaren and Herbert Read, who called it a “detective story with a difference”. Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z As she brings to bear the methods of an ace historian at the top of her game, Lepore turns “Joe Gould’s Teeth” into a ripping detective story. A historical sleuth sorting fact from fiction 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “Manhattan Night” is a modestly budgeted urban neo-noir and a throwback to the days when moody detective stories were B-picture staples. 'Manhattan Night' is a classy, if confusing, neo-noir 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z East West Street is really a double detective story. Baillie Gifford Prize: Lawyer wins award for book about genocide - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z A single document in the Manila archive marks the start of the detective story. The $10bn question: what happened to the Marcos millions? 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z This does not quite, however, make The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor “the detective story to end all detective stories”, as Julian Symons has claimed. Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s considered by many to be the first modern detective story. Your Wednesday Briefing: Donald Trump, Boston Celtics, Doris Roberts 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z A detective story at its heart, "Her Story" relies on full-motion video, asking players to use different search terms to put back together a mystery. 'Her Story' dominates at the video game industry's most prestigious awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z If you look at the portrayals of Batman, going from the 1940s serials, which were very much like pulp detective stories, Batman was running around solving things with his fists. Frank Miller on the 30th anniversary of 'Dark Knight:' 'Part of my job is to get your attention' 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Director Tom McCarthy, a self-described lapsed Catholic, and Josh Singer, a Jew, collaborated on a screenplay that is equal parts detective story, societal melodrama and old-fashioned reporter procedural of which Howard Hawks would be proud. Donald Trump could be most Oscar-worthy president 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z And so, having apparently exhausted the possibilities of the detective story with his first book, what was Borneman to do next? Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “It is one of the oddest detective stories in Russian history in the last century,” said Ksenia V. Luchenko, a freelance journalist with long experience covering Orthodox Church matters. Russian Orthodox Church Blocks Funeral for Last of Romanov Remains 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z No, the bit that got me chuckling was the pledge that Bergen’s narrative would be “paced like a detective story.” Which Americans are most likely to become home-grown terrorists? 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Like any good detective story, clues advance the narrative: a bowl, complete with wooden spoon and an unfinished meal — a discovery that suggests that whoever lived here left in a hurry. Archaeologists in England Tackle Mystery of Prehistoric Village’s Rapid Demise 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “I find the oil and gas industry like a detective story,” he said. Life in oil: At 90, Paul Hilliard looks ahead 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z A combination detective story and indictment of the complicity of silence, director Tom McCarthy and co-writer Josh Singer remove the veil on a rather painful epidemic in one of the world’s largest institutions. Top 10 films of 2015 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” is, at its heart, a black comedy and sendup of both detective stories and Hollywood noir, offering up reversals and plot revelations while smartly playing it all for laughs. Christmas action movies provide holiday entertainment alternatives 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The finished movie, which opens in limited release Nov. 6, plays as a detective story that also explores the question of why people look the other way when "good" institutions do terrible things. What 'Spotlight' respects about the church-scandal-breaking journalists and the actors who play them 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The modern-day update of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective stories stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his stalwart companion, Dr. Watson. Cumberbatch and ‘Sherlock’ to return for 4th season 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The modern-day update of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective stories stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his stalwart companion, Dr. Watson. Cumberbatch and 'Sherlock' to return for 4th season, have Jan. 1 special episode in US, UK 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z If you read or watch detective stories, you probably don’t think about them as an expression of economic principles. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In Ambler's masterpiece The Mask of Dimitrios, published in 1939, an English writer of detective stories, Charles Latimer, reflects on the career of a master criminal he believed had been murdered. A Point of View: The enduring relevance of Eric Ambler's spy novels - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z That time frame predated by more than a hundred years the written history of the Pacific Northwest—and so, by rights, the detective story should have ended there. The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The tiny fish known as the bristlemouth is part of a detective story that bears on everything from feeding the planet and monitoring ocean health to learning how to better predict climate change. Dark Region of Ocean May Shed Light on Climate Change and Other Issues 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z She likened the work to an ongoing detective story. Bank of Life: How children of the 90s helped us all - BBC News 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Postmodern versions of the detective story include Mark Smith’s The Death of the Detective, in which the detective loses his way, seeming to cause the crimes he is trying to solve. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Suddenly we’re in a teenage detective story, just one that’s also plagued by the oppressive threat that the walker will turn up at any moment. Review: A teenage girl’s nightmare realized in ‘It Follows’ 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z But, sooner or later, every field has its field day, and the discovery of the Cascadia subduction zone stands as one of the greatest scientific detective stories of our time. The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The "Saturday Night Live" veteran's unexpectedly enthralling solo show, based on his recovery memoir, is structured as a kind of detective story into the origins of his mental illness and addiction. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Feb 27 - March 5, 2015 - Los Angeles Times 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The “Saturday Night Live” veteran’s unexpectedly enthralling solo show, based on his recovery memoir, is structured as a kind of detective story into the origins of his mental illness and addiction. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Feb 13 - Feb 19, 2015 - Los Angeles Times 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Even more complex is Alain Robbe-Grillet’s The Erasers, which subverts every detective story trope from narrative line, to the motive, to the contrast between killer and detective. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Denial: The whole thing seemed, at first, like one part sour grapes and one part absurd detective story. Denial and Deflategate: A Patriots Fan’s Stages of Grief 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The show, which is based on a book series of the same name, is a bit of a sci-fi detective story about the search for a woman who's gone missing somewhere in the solar system. 15 new trailers you should watch this week 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “You know, it’s a detective story,” she later said of the film. Luise Rainer, back-to-back Academy Award winner, dies 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “Inherent Vice” is a looney “The Big Sleep,” a far-out detective story that embraces a helter-skelter, anything-goes farce. Anderson goes back to Cali for ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z And it’s not just detective stories, but works of fictions of all genres are brimming with economic ideas, from supply and demand to marginal cost. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z James took the classic British detective story into tough modern terrain, complete with troubled relationships and brutal violence, and never accepted that crime writing was second-class literature. AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EST 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He also starred detective stories and dramas including the 1977 "The Yellow Handkerchief" and the 1999 "Railroad Man," in which he was awarded best actor in the Montreal World Film Festival. Japan veteran actor Ken Takakura dies at 83 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z He wrote detective stories, did a new translation of the Bible, and became the Catholic chaplain of Oxford University. The Trials of Penelope Fitzgerald 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z It bears notes for a detective story in Conan Doyle’s handwriting. Exhibition probes the mystery of Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Information asymmetry and the detective story But what of information asymmetry, a concept that posits that some negotiations are unfair because one party has more information than the other? Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In 1928, the writer SS Van Dine published his influential 20 "commandments" for writing detective stories. Sherlock Holmes: dispelling the myths 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The model for this is surely AJA Symons's The Quest for Corvo, with its detective story premise, which came out shortly before Nabokov started writing this, his first English language book. The top 10 fictitious biographies 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The comic’s cartoon nihilism works in short bursts, as a kind of concise, witty send-up of old crime and detective stories. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Dostoevsky’s novel is something of a detective story, featuring a policeman who suspects the killer even after the case is officially closed. ‘Norte, the End of History’ movie review: ‘Crime and Punishment’ re-imagined And the detective story isn’t merely about economics; in some ways it is economics, following many of the same thought structures. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Despite being a detective story, there's very little detecting to do in The Wolf Among Us. 'The Wolf Among Us' season one review: a terrifying fairy tale 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Thomas Berger, the eclectic novelist who reimagined the American West in the historical yarn Little Big Man and mastered genres ranging from detective stories to domestic farce, has died at age 89. Thomas Berger, author of Little Big Man, dies aged 89 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Their first offering, “The Private Eye,” is a detective story set in a futuristic world where the Internet is no longer used. Comics Sales Rise, in Paper and Pixels 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z "We had to start asking questions. It was really like a detective story," says Piot. The virus detective who discovered Ebola 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In almost all detective stories, a crime has been committed, with social order disrupted. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z All of this is a bit of a detective story. Take a virtual voyage into Darwin's library 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It is no exaggeration to say that technology has transformed the spy novel as comprehensively as the discovery of fingerprinting changed the detective story. Has modern technology killed the spy thriller? 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The detective story writer Raymond Chandler, who gave great thought to the subject, called it "cadence". The 10 American writers that English children should study for GCSE 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z What I am working on now will be another detective story, it does seem important to write one more. PD James' top 10 tips for writing a novel 2013-11-09T01:02:50Z Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is often thought of as the original detective story. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Today, when we talk about Lee Harvey Oswald, he is usually portrayed as a cog in the detective story surrounding Kennedy's assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald, Disappointed Revolutionary 2013-10-04T23:28:21Z After all, Edgar Allan Poe lived here in the Bronx and he invented the detective story.” Finding Trash and Worse, but So Far, No Ship With Treasure 2013-09-04T03:33:24Z The western is one of the few genres one cannot credit to the author Edgar Allan Poe, father of science fiction, "horror", and the detective story, notably The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The 10 American writers that English children should study for GCSE 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s no surprise that “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a detective story set in a London populated by supermodels and rock stars, shot to the top of best-seller lists once the identity of the author was revealed. Common Sense: ‘Cuckoo’s Calling’ Reveals Long Odds for New Authors 2013-08-30T16:50:14Z Might that new reality make the detective story go away? Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z “It’s been an interesting sort of detective story,” said Mr. Vaughan, 89. Benjamin Britten’s Lost Score for ‘Les Sylphides’ 2013-08-27T22:08:12Z “He’s put about five years of research into one year,” said Sander, who called Missinne’s journey “an incredible detective story.” Oldest globe to depict the New World may have been discovered 2013-08-19T21:25:49Z "One is a detective story," he said, stressing that images may help resolve the fates of failed spacecraft. Scientists Search Lunar Landscape for Lost Moon Probes 2013-07-01T16:15:00.653Z No. It’s a classic detective story, better written than most.” Common Sense: ‘Cuckoo’s Calling’ Reveals Long Odds for New Authors 2013-08-30T16:50:14Z The ultimate question at the heart of the detective story and, in fact, all of literature is: who am I and what does all this mean? Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And on that note, a deceptive name is always a nice touch for a detective story. Gunpoint – review 2013-06-03T13:30:09Z “This is an 80-year-old detective story and we are getting close to the end,” said University of Chicago physicist Michael Turner, one of the giants in the field of dark matter. Scientists find traces of dark matter from cosmos 2013-04-03T16:23:00Z Moments later, there he was before us, the broken talks virtually in his hands, like the murder weapon in a detective story. David Cameron is a man in a hurry over Leveson 2013-03-14T17:12:43Z In her article, which begins on page 36, Pringle describes the fascinating detective story behind unraveling these lines of evidence. How Human Creativity Arose 2013-02-19T19:15:03.863Z The New York Times called it "a spellbinding detective story". Five media myths of Watergate 2012-06-16T23:54:49Z Fans of the are far more likely to enjoy the Ben Affleck crime caper The Town than David Fincher’s dark detective story. Yosi Glick's Smarter Movie Recommendations 2012-05-17T22:39:40Z How many detective stories have used the trope of the client who acts ostensibly on someone else’s behalf—all the while being interested in himself alone? The Power of Once upon a Time : A Story to Tame The Wild Things 2012-05-08T22:45:00.477Z We are left with the first half of a detective story. Gunvor: Riddles, mysteries and enigmas 2012-05-03T15:00:45Z On the holodeck, Star Trek’s characters enter into holonovels, where they get to actually be the heroine of a romance novel or the hero of a detective story. The Storytelling Animal: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall 2012-04-19T15:45:03.210Z Much of his fiction is organized, in the manner of a detective story, around a quest. Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68 2012-04-05T01:55:33Z Hardboiled detective story; private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl with no boy friends and many girl friends. Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. 2012-03-19T02:00:24.597Z It is safe to say that the reader who glances at the first page of Major Arthur Griffiths' detective story, 'The Rome Express,' will certainly not skip one single word until he reaches the end. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z He said the manuscript was such a marked departure from his 40 published detective stories that he might choose to publish it under his legal name, Grigory Chkhartishvili, perhaps combining it with his pen name. After Russia Elects Putin, a Protest Wanes 2012-03-10T01:17:01Z What followed was as mysterious as a chapter out of an Anna Katherine Green detective story. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z This remarkable detective story unravels the mystery in a series of thrilling scenes. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z Readers of detective stories are familiar with the phenomenon known as "shadowing." The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z She would not have looked at me before the war, when I was only a younger brother of the Marquis of Haslemere—and the author of a successful detective story called The Key. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Not a detective story of the ordinary blood-and-thunder kind, but a really good story, that is told in a vigorous and attractive way.... The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Author of "The Leavenworth Case" This is something more than a mere detective story; it is a thrilling romance—a romance of mystery and crime where a shrewd detective helps to solve the mystery. The Millionaire Baby 2011-12-21T03:00:32.447Z "But aren't the detective stories of real life interesting and oftentimes exciting?" On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The only reading for which he cared was that of detective stories. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Richard Marsh tells in a very agreeable manner a number of detective stories of the Sherlock Holmes order.... Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z “It’s more like a detective story,” Dr. Landau said. A Few Strokes of the Past in Work of Artist Who Lost Memory 2011-09-19T21:37:30Z "Let me go to the hotel to change my frock, and get rid of this detective story," I said. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Then she returned to the reading of her detective story, a type of literature to which she was much addicted. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The man who is looking at the railway bookstall for a good detective story knows at once what to say when he is offered the Diary of a Soul. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z She'd just read a detective story about a painter that killed the woman he was painting because he didn't want any one else to paint her. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z By mail, $1.40 A more thrilling detective story than "Who?" has seldom appeared. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z The following day he came up to me in Dominion Square, where I was sitting for a breath of air, reading a detective story, with Toto lying at my feet. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z You called the headquarters number every night when you came down—the other girls tipped me off to that, for they know that I'm fond of detective stories. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z I have spoken of Winnie’s fondness for reading and telling detective stories. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z He published in his own magazine some of Collins’s best detective stories, including The Woman in White, No Name, and The Moonstone. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z "The best, most intricate, most perfectly constructed, and most fascinating detective story ever written." Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z Only when it was over did we realize that the detective story was still in my hand. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z The purser would probably pat us on the back, tell us to be good, and warn us not to read so many detective stories. Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays 2011-05-22T02:00:14.900Z As to detective stories: "They are essentially domestic," declares Mr. Chesterton. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z The resolution is fun, fair and surprising, but at its core, “Curtains” is not a detective story. | New Jersey: Knocking Them Dead Backstage 2011-05-07T00:57:24Z Any one seeing him would seize upon him as a character newly stepped from some detective story or tale of mystery. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z In the march up to the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads "nothing but detective stories." Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z In detective stories when they shadowed people there were generally revolvers at the finish. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z It had been some weeks since I had listened to any of his detective stories, and I was athirst for another. The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z After all, the best detective story in English is Poe's The Gold Bug. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z One of the cleverest and best detective stories we have yet seen.... The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z This is something more than an ordinary detective story. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z You see, I've read a great many detective stories——" "Yes; you were reading one this evening? In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Gentlewoman— "Exciting and well sustained, by no means the ordinary class of detective story, but takes one all over the world and introduces an abundance of adventure." A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z It’s a modern detective story, set in San Francisco’s atmospheric Chinatown. The Bay Citizen: Lost for Years, a Trove of Chinatown Art Is Tracked Down 2011-02-11T04:08:36Z No one who is familiar with the work of Mr. Headon Hill will dispute that in "The Queen of Night" is to be found the most skilful and enthralling detective story he has yet done. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z Professor Dicey recently said, 'If you like a detective story take care you read a good detective story.' That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z He belonged on the tenth floor and as they ascended, Moore, full of his story, said: "Ever read detective stories, Mr Vail?" In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Aberdeen Free Press— "An engaging book of private detective stories by this well-known writer, he writes brightly and retains the reader's attention throughout." A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the brilliant author of the wildly popular Sherlock Holmes detective stories, which celebrated the triumph of reason and logic over superstition and magical thinking. Houdini's Skeptical Advice: Just Because Something's Unexplained Doesn't Mean It's Supernatural 2011-02-04T15:15:00.243Z One of the most ingeniously conceived detective stories ever written. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z This is a good detective story, and it is the better because the part of the hero is not filled by a member of the profession.... That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z "I know nothing of such things,—I can't bear detective stories, but if a paper-knife was used to kill somebody, I should think the owner of the weapon must be more or less suspected." In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Dr. Ottolengui has given us another of his powerfully imaginative detective stories. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z “What I found was like a detective story,” he said. From M.S. Patients, Outcry for Surgery 2010-06-28T20:57:00Z "One of the cleverest and best detective stories we have seen." The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z An absorbing detective story of modern New York, especially original in its plot and the fact that a young lawyer does the detective work; the conclusion is most surprising. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z But a person's public image and reputation is an asset, and if I wrote detective stories starring Lou Reed, I don't doubt his lawyers would have me. Using real people in art isn't just a legal minefield ? it's a question of good manners 2010-05-30T21:01:00Z The latest details about how investigators tracked him down add to a detective story worthy of a Hollywood movie. Chain of Phone Numbers Led Investigators to Bomb Suspect 2010-05-05T20:55:00Z Thursday 8 April at 2000 BST Or download the "The government produces a summary every two years on the outcomes and it is like reading the same detective story over and over again." Call to reform child abuse probes 2010-04-08T00:29:00Z Two new collections of nonfiction detective stories will help. Bookshelf | Secrets and Struggles: Tales of Obsessions and Battles That Shaped the City 2010-04-03T00:40:00Z This is one of the new and artistic style of detective stories, somewhat in the vein of Conan Doyle. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z His book becomes a kind of intellectual, emotional and forensic detective story. Books of The Times: A Look at the Snarled Past of Armenians and Turks 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z He loved detective stories on the radio and dreamed of wearing the uniform. 2010-01-24T19:14:00Z "His First Offence" deals with a farcical situation in the shape of a detective story, which from first to last is written with extraordinary high spirits and delightful humour. A Blot on the Scutcheon She told me she fairly revelled in stories of high life and detective stories. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Once, I tried to write a detective story, but was wise enough to tear up the thing as soon as it was finished. A Top-Floor Idyl Gaboriau elevated the detective story to something like a superior plane in popular fiction. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 “Probably he’d prefer the last Town Topics or the latest detective story.” Leerie Sometimes men do read novels, mostly detective stories, sporting or very sentimental tales. A Novelist on Novels The inventors of the French detective story,—that ingenious Chinese puzzle of literature,—have no such wizard as he to show. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Times.—“A capital mystery and detective story, with some exciting scenes in India.” Lord Stranleigh Abroad Evidently the man was either an ex-cop or a reader of detective stories. Instant of Decision They played the part that novels and detective stories do now. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance "One of the best police detective stories written in America." Hand and Ring Here is a question put at an examination for promotion to detective-sergeant which might form the skeleton of a detective story. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police Holy Smokes, don't you ever read any detective stories? Youth Almost any artist can illustrate detective story magazines, so don't waste your talent on them. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 The great majority of detective stories are merely ingenious. The So-called Human Race |
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