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Definition of Detective novel
1. Noun. Novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detective Novel
Literary usage of Detective novel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"The demand for the roman po/icier, a detective novel, or mystery story, has never
been ... The detective novel in France today can be summarized in two ..."
2. The Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn Wells (1913)
"A detective novel may have minor complications, more characterization and more
elaborate setting; but the plot must not vary from the plot of a detective ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"... detective novel THE GOLD BAG By CAROLYN WELLS A mystery-detective novel by
the author of "The Clue. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"EMILE GABORIAU (1835-1873) Jo SPEAK of the detective novel is to speak of ...
Millaud recognized in the fiction a new note in detective-novel making. ..."
5. How to Get the Best Out of Books by Richard Le Gallienne (1904)
"If, as I was saying, you approach literature by the gate of the detective novel,
why not begin with the best? Why waste your time, as the advertisers say, ..."
6. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Millaud recognized in the fiction a new note in detective-novel making.
He transferred it to another journal, Le Soleil. There it made an instant and ..."
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