| 单词 | crime novelist |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrime novelist crime novelist n. a writer of crime novels; cf. Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1898 G. Saintsbury in E. Marriage tr. H. de Balzac Gondreville Myst. Pref. p. ix It is certain as anything in history that Balzac begat Poe, and that Poe begat all our English crime-novelists. 1954 Times 16 June 4/4 Up and down the crowded aisles moved the crime novelists,..with nothing more sinister in their amiability than an eagerness to autograph fly-leaves of their own books. 2008 Los Angeles Times 24 Oct. e19 She made the transition from frustrated newspaper reporter to part-time crime novelist to critically acclaimed bestselling author. < as lemmas |
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