WordNet
n. a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
Wikipedia
Detective Story is a 1951 film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, and George Macready. Both Lee Grant and Joseph Wiseman perform in their film debuts. The movie was adapted by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it was directed by William Wyler.
An embittered New York cop leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. Little does he realize that his obsessive pursuit of an abortionist is leading him to discover his wife had an abortion. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Detective Story is a 1949 play in three acts by American playwright Sidney Kingsley. The play opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on March 23, 1949 where it played until the production moved to the Broadhurst Theatre on July 3, 1950. The production closed on August 12, 1950 after 581 performances. The cast notably included Lydia Clarke who won a Theatre World Award for her performance. Other cast members included Ralph Bellamy as Detective Jim McLeod, Meg Mundy as Mary McLeod, James Westerfield as Detective Lou Brody, Joan Copeland as Susan Carmichael, Harry Worth as Dr. Kurt Schneider, and Maureen Stapleton as Miss Hatch. Kingsley was awarded an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Mystery Play.
is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi.
Detective Story can refer to the following things:
- Detective fiction, a genre of fiction
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Detective Story (play), a 1949 play by Sidney Kingsley
- Detective Story (1951 film), a film version of the play
- Tantei Monogatari (Detective Story), a Japanese TV series broadcast 1979 to 1980
- Detective Story (1983 film), a Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi
- Detective Story (2007 film), a Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike
- Detective Story Magazine, a magazine of detective fiction that ran from 1915 to 1949
- A Detective Story, a short film from the 2003 short-film compilation The Animatrix
Usage examples of "detective story".
It's perfectly standard fare in the older detective story magazines and some others.
When they told him they were police detectives, he said he had once played a cop in a summer stock production of Detective Story.
But the mystery of death had an undeniable creepy allure, and sometimes a good Father Brown detective story simply didn't satisfy his curiosity.
If this were a detective story, I suppose I'd be advising you to work on him.