31.   A loony, droll Irish detective story written by a novelist who has been compared to James Joyce.

32.   A true detective story.

33.   But real life is not a detective story.

34.   But the chuckles, wordplay and one twisted sister give this detective story plenty of propulsion for a quick read.

35.   Detective stories are also hot.

36.   Environmental quest as detective story.

37.   Essentially, Quastler has written a detective story.

38.   Every disease outbreak tells a detective story.

39.   Fewer still come into being as a result of drama and intrigue worthy of a detective story.

40.   Fourteen days after the whole country was shocked by this mid-summer brutality, we are left with one funeral after another as well as a great American detective story.