detective novel in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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It combines the genres of spy novel and detective novel.
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It is a group of short detective stories within a detective novel, for there is a rather sketchy, but nonetheless absorbing plot which holds the separate tales together.
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Listening to her, it occurred to me that this investigation of mine wasn't a detective novel.
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A ghostwritten detective novel continuously narrates their investigations.
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The whole idea of a detective novel was basically new to them.
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It reads like a detective novel with an unsatisfying ending.
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These works describe the dreams of city dwellers frustrated by powers beyond their control, but are narrated in a style close to that of popular romantic or detective novel.
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At the same time, the book is full of interesting anecdotes and colorful descriptions that could hardly be surpassed by a detective novel.
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Bodkin earned a place in the history of the detective novel by virtue of his invention of the first detective family.
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If it were the last page of a detective novel, you'd be asking for your money back.
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