21.   Unlike the heroes of dime-store detective novels, Galligan has no trouble paying the rent.

22.   What had once been the dime novel, and later the detective novel, today is the handsomely packaged choice of readers of every stripe.

23.   Among his previously published works are four other detective novels.

24.   But Narcejac was hesitant, reluctant to follow in the footsteps of Americans Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet, then creating a new genre of detective novel.

25.   But so are popular detective novels from America.

26.   Colin Dexter, creator of the Inspector Morse detective novels and TV series, received a royal award from Prince Charles on Friday for his service to literature.

27.   Detective novels, of course.

28.   His book reads like a good detective novel.

29.   The days before the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced are as suspenseful as a detective novel.

30.   The Soviet media, detective novels and thrillers frequently portrayed art collecting as being linked to crime.