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The stories only tangentially resemble the traditionaldetectivestoryor mystery.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He wrote adetectivestorya week for 40 weeks, among other activities at about age 20.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These short novels are predecessors of the moderndetectivestory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Chabon makes good on his claim: a successfuldetectivestoryneed not be lacking in literary merit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His horror novels are often structured as thrillers, withdetectivestoryplots involving international espionage, but leading to a supernatural resolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Kaiser's book is as muchdetectivestoryas anything else.
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How this has been achieved is adetectivestorywritten in a language of its own.
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This is adetectivestory, and not a psychological story at all.
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I admit that this is very much like adetectivestory, but that is not my fault.
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The experts in the matter could not understand what were the causes producing these results, and, of course, the detective in thatdetectivestorymust be the expert—the doctor.
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It's pretty fascinating, like working out adetectivestory, but she doesn't play fair.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In an inverteddetectivestory, the commission of the crime, and usually also the identity of the perpetrator, is shown or described at the beginning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the time of his death he was working on adetectivestory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It reads like a subtle, interestingdetectivestory, which he finished in 1958.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In a poll of 17detectivestorywriters and reviewers, this novel was voted as the fourth best locked room mystery of all time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a kind ofdetectivestoryand some reviews present it as mystery fiction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Wada was developing a highschool drama, but the publisher expecteddetectivestorystarring a high school student.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The remainder of the video was a half-hour narrative, in the form of a farcical film noirdetectivestory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Half of the film consists of a new comedicdetectivestoryline written by the director.
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