WordNet
detective novel
n. novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end [syn: mystery novel]
Usage examples of "detective novel".
To be sure, the murderer in a detective novel should be given a sporting chance.
His detective novel _Black Aura_ contains borderline SF elements, and he has collaborated with Thomas M.
The American detective novel tends to demand a little more characterization.
The one at which you made a speech- de Meister shuddered in his turn-on the detective novel.
At sunset, I'm rereading the same screen of a detective novel for the third time, my brain failing to accept the information.
The story is related in the hard-boiled, tough-guy style familiar to students of the detective novel of the 1930's and 1940's.