"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.
- In "The Victorian Age in Literature" G. K. Chesterton calls it "Probably the best detective tale in the world."
- The modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective tales stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.
- Once Jake is involved in the search for his parents the novel becomes a time-travelling detective tale, with Jake and friends forced to work out one conundrum after another.
- The writer of detective tales makes a man a duke solely in order to blast him with a charge of burglary.
- The Prismatic Bezel, Sebastian's first novel, "a rollicking parody of the setting of a detective tale" reflected in V's search for SK's Russian lover.
- Take away the ceiling fans and dragon boats from Mr. Bradby's story, and you have a not-so-unusual detective tale stretched across a colorful, intriguing backdrop.
- "The Name of the Rose," is a detective tale of monks in a 14th-century Italian abbey trying to solve a murder.
- In a still-developing medical detective tale, Dr. Acheson and Dr. Keusch have been on the trail of the toxin, one way or another, for 25 years.
- The discovery also set in motion a modern detective tale, an exhaustive investigation by the Kentucky authorities who worked for months to learn the identity of the dead man.
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