1.   ...reading a crappy detective novel.

2.   An early hard-boiled detective novel featuring a whore who marries her fancy man and later murders him.

3.   The murder helped prove a new science and became the plot in a detective novel.

4.   It can deal erm with much more difficult and dangerous things than the classic detective novel in England.

5.   Any fan of detective novels will tell you that murder requires both motive and opportunity.

6.   Before that, homegrown detective novels were rare, and those that did come out were often published abroad because the genre was considered too bourgeois for Bolshevik tastes.

7.   Desperate for money, Auster wrote a detective novel.

8.   From London to Shanghai, this detective novel keeps the twists coming.

9.   Graham Greene called his detective novels entertainments.

10.   He was forever reading detective novels on the set.