11.   His study is crammed with books by his good friend Graham Greene, detective novels, the spy novels of le Carre and dozens of books about his betrayal.

12.   I say detective novels.

13.   Michael Gambon stars as P.E. Marlow, a writer of dime-store detective novels who is in a British hospital for treatment of a nasty skin condition.

14.   Murphy is an author of mystery detective novels for kids, that are set on Cape Cod.

15.   Perhaps in a reflection of the exponential growth in crime and mob-style killings, detective novels and crime thrillers have grown immensely popular in Russia.

16.   Should we expect a mystery or detective novel to be well written?

17.   The newspapers report that his note, written on a page torn from a detective novel, was found wrapped in plastic and stuffed in his clothes.

18.   The script was modified to make him not just a writer, but a writer of hard-boiled detective novels as well.

19.   The writer, Stine, is adapting his detective novel into a screenplay for a smarmy control freak of a producer-director.

20.   There have been examinations of the detective as skilled reader of cryptic texts and of the detective novel as a bourgeois morality tale.