61. Still, he skillfully juggles facts, hints, and possibilities to turn out a fascinating historical detective story. 62. Still, the cost for all of those grand images is a diminished detective story and characters that are less developed than they ought to be. 63. Such, nearly, is the fate of Oedipus, whose journey to self-knowledge has been likened to a detective story. 64. That, I think, is why detective stories continue to have a following and why so many people do crossword puzzles. 65. That column gave incorrect information about a dog in an Arthur Conan Doyle detective story. 66. The detective story unfolds through the activities of the players. 67. The detective story develops toward a point of sudden menace, but the low-level tension of the spy novel is altogether different. 68. The detective story has become a touchstone for academic criticism, raising issues that have become cultural obsessions. 69. The critic Edmund Wilson, who loathed detective stories, allowed a glowing exception for Sherlock Holmes. 70. The original site was an online narrative-based interactive detective story. |