| 单词 | detective fiction |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdetective fiction detective fiction n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > crime or detective novel > collectively crime fiction1905 detective fiction1922 whodunitry1961 1922 ‘Sapper’ Black Gang ii. 28 What I'm going to tell you now..may seem extraordinary and what one would expect in detective fiction. 1928 R. A. Knox Footsteps at Lock iii. 26 The Muse of detective fiction..cannot tell a plain unvarnished tale. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 June 316/5 This is one of the tales in which M. Simenon indulges his characteristic inquisitiveness about people while preserving the ‘puzzle’ convention of detective-fiction. < as lemmas |
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