11.   That the blueprint detective story at its most basic is not a story.

12.   Their approach is informal and Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology reads like a scientific detective story.

13.   Your detective of the detective story, of course, went about seeking information.

14.   Writers of detective stories often slip in a tiny clue that most readers will Miss.

15.   Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.

16.   ...detective stories by American writers.

17.   The Sherlock Holmes stories are the prototypes of modern detective stories.

18.   Most of her books are conventional detective stories.

19.   George studied medicine in his youth.Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories.

20.   That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it, I got that from a detective story.