51.   Loeb, he told the judge, was an avid reader of detective stories, then forbidden material for minors.

52.   Maybe, the editor joked, Kemelman should wrap his observations of suburban Jewish life into a detective story.

53.   More than any other American writer, Raymond Chandler with conscious purpose elevated the detective story to the status of a novel in all its particulars.

54.   My more stable reading consists of corrupting literature, like mysteries and detective stories.

55.   My usual reading, detective stories and the latest tomes on presidential politics, seemed a bit tame compared to the murders, cruelties and betrayals of Shakespeare.

56.   Nobody other than the hero of a detective story is ever buoyed by the news that a time-wastingly attractive rookie is on the scene.

57.   On the East Coast, truck stops offer detective stories on tape for drivers to rent at one stop and to return further up the road.

58.   One spot running on cable television channels spoofs a television detective story to solve who mysteriously restores power after a neighborhood outage.

59.   One moment the movie pretends to be a tongue-in-cheek detective story of a gringo siren on the run in Mexico.

60.   Passing narratives are detective stories.