It's a detective story infused with feminine jealousy and desire.
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The 2015 sections are, in their way, a detective story.
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It's considered by many to be the first modern detective story.
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Like many a detective story, this one has some loose ends.
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We've got a detective story in the style of Scandinavian police drama.
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On the subway, she asks me to tell her a detective story.
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"IQ" becomes a detective story about the attack on Cal and Cal's crew.
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Along with the short story and horror fiction, Poe created the detective story.
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" At first, we thought, "Oh gosh, this looks like a detective story right?
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Friedman's work is less theological than Kugel's and more a historical detective story.
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The detective-story aspects of "Youngblood" are the least convincing part of the novel.
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It's a detective story, it's a supernatural story, it's a movie about young adults.
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The narrative thus becomes a mix of family history, medical detective story and memoir.
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The second volume is a detective story, and the third one is a mystery.
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But in addition, we frame the film as a kind of detective story. Right.
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It's also a juicy crime thriller that combines a hardboiled detective story with magical realism.
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"The Looming Tower" is not alone in favoring a detective story over ideas and import.
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Yet the over-all effect is as taut with tangible evidence as a detective story.
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Saving the future Right now, we're still in the opening pages of this detective story.
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It's a complicated historical detective story that's resulted in a vast misconception about Viking headgear.
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This Is the Police is part comic book, part SimCity, and part crime noir detective story.
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The detective story will always conclude with the detective explaining how the culprit committed the crime.
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Because "End of Watch" is a breathless detective story, it's built around a very specific mystery.
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Part detective story, part coming-of-age tale, Sánchez's novel doesn't shy from heavy subject matter.
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A family mystery, it's part memoir, part detective story, solved as much through images as words.
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Blade Runner (the game) told a unique detective story set parallel to the original 1982 film.
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But it isn't so much the detective story that makes "Things in Jars" such a triumph.
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Woven throughout this detective story is a tale of star-crossed lovers, divided by class and war.
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What begins as a detective story quickly descends into a demonic murder nightmare for policeman Jong-goo.
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Set in the distant future, Altered Carbon uses a simple detective story to explore classic cyberpunk themes.
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But the second half turns into a sort of detective story about whether all of this adds up.
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Like the Kid, Hansen revels in the lingo of tabloid and tale, of dime novel and detective story.
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It manages to be both a great detective story and a great love story at the same time.
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It's a detective story with cover art that looks like something off a science fiction book from the 1980s.
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Deliberate and meticulous, the in-over-his-head detective story has rarely been handled with such style and finesse.
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"Part detective story, part coming-of-age tale, Sánchez's novel doesn't shy from heavy subject matter," said our review.
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His stage debut was in the summer of 22003 in "Detective Story" at the Peaks Island Playhouse in Maine.
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I often think of the experience of learning new things as if you're in a really interesting detective story.
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Rzhevskaya's " Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter " (Greenhill Books), out now for the first time in English, tells their detective story.
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Sales of the detective story skyrocketed when it was discovered that Rowling was the true author behind the pen name.
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It is as though we've been thrust into a detective story containing only the faintest trace of the original incident.
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Yet even though Mason must clear his name with the cops, this book is not a detective story or a mystery.
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"This discovery also reminds us that much still remains to be learnt in the next gripping chapter of this detective story."
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Each season was only a few episodes long, and each episode centered on retelling a different Arthur Conan Doyle detective story.
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The center's tunnel network "has a noir, kind of dark detective-story feel, and we just loved it," Mr. Petersen said.
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One of those is Automata, a sci-fi film noir detective story about a hardboiled human sleuth and his robot partner.
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What you can't do is write a detective story and think 'the butler did it' is a world-first clever twist.
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He revisits the gripping detective story surrounding bones under a parking lot that turned out to belong to King Richard III.
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It's a detective story of sorts, with Mr. Matar trying to piece together what happened to his father after his arrest.
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He'd had a great success with Polanski on "Rosemary's Baby," and had to talk him into directing a mere detective story.
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"American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form," he once said.
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The Guardian called it a "vibrant combination of romance, fantasy and detective story" and a "huge step forward" for the trans community.
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He wrote garish tales in many genres (including soft-core pornography) for publications like Infinity Science Fiction, Terror Detective Story and Exotica.
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The BAMcinématek program features Cunard's detective story, A Daughter of the Law (1921), in which she's the star, writer, director, and producer.
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With supernatural powers, and a much-deeper story than meets the eye, this Cthulhu-inspired detective story delivers on its evocative title.
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The book reads like a historical detective story, one where the sleuth is savvy enough to know some mysteries won't be solved.
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In "Detective Story" (1977), rather than take the victim's point of view, Mr. Kertesz recounts the prison confessions of a secret police torturer.
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The movie, in other words, looks a lot like a sci-fi riff on the LA detective story — Raymond Chandler meets Isaac Asimov.
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The Agatha Christie-like ecosystem pairs with lacerating contemporary wit, and alternating past and present scenes makes for a multilayered, modern detective story.
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The mystery that follows is part detective story of earthbound sleuthing and part investigation into the otherworldly realm of ghosts and the undead.
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A really good detective story — a story that fundamentally changes its detective — depends on a twisted intimacy between the detective and the case.
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Since the play is a detective story (its title comes from a Sherlock Holmes tale), I won't say much more about its central mysteries.
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Ben H. Winters's apocalyptic detective story "The Last Policeman" contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural.
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But it's much more than a simple genre mashup, and in some ways the detective story is the least interesting part of the film.
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It seems like a simple but neat twist on the traditional detective story, with the sci-fi elements making it all a bit more fun.
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Judgment, which launches next week on the PS4, is similar to Yakuza in a lot of ways, but it's also a hard-boiled detective story.
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The E3 2016 demo showed us something we'd seen before in some senses from Quantic Dream, which was a sort of detective story, a mystery.
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And somewhere in there, The City and the City avoids being a self-congratulatory thought experiment and becomes a great and thought-provoking detective story.
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The book feels like a great detective story – it reminded me of The Name of the Rose or Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code series.
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It's rewriting history to fit a detective story, and it's being rewarded both by those who don't know better and those who should know better.
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It's a political thriller with an almost infinite tolerance for tedium, a detective story with an obvious culprit, a courtroom procedural caught up in irrelevant details.
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It takes place in the future, and essentially involves a detective story in which a resurrected detective investigates the attempted murder of the world's richest man.
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But all of this action occurs within the framing device of a detective story, and this proves to be Night Call's clumsiest and least-involving element.
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Raymond Chandler is said to have advised detective-story writers, when stuck with a plot, to have a character walk through a door with a gun.
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Now, Kenneth Branagh is bringing Christie's 1934 landmark detective story back to the big screen, and he's stacking the cast list with A-listers once again.
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"The Great Pretender" reads like a detective story, with Cahalan revealing tantalizing clues at opportune moments so we can experience the thrills of discovery alongside her.
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From fragments and snippets, glimpses and hints, a complex woman emerges in a film that is part detective story, love story, family history, and searing biography.
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Unbeknownst, by ShadeJackrabbit, is a sort of mash-up of the endless clicker genre (think Cow Clicker or Cookie Clicker) and a stylish, pulpy noir detective story.
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The film overlays the tale of a devoted, hopeful woman who refuses to believe her true love is dead with an elaborate and well-constructed detective story.
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The first season follows the mysterious disappearance of a young boy, and will soon have you hooked thanks to the fantastic ensemble cast and compelling detective story.
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Some of his books assume the trappings of conventional narrative genres like the detective story or the morality play, but many are really exercises in dream logic.
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In a sequence that briefly has the adrenaline of a good detective story, Deborah and Rebecca track down Elsie's records, which include evidence that she was abused.
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And the more the series can live in this gray area between absolutes — a detective story staple — the more it can distinguish itself from television's crowded pack.
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Tcheng creates a fictional detective story to frame the film, featuring writer/actress Tavi Gevinson as a woman working in an archive who stumbles upon the tapes.
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BACK STORY The death in 1849 of Edgar Allan Poe, the writer and poet recognized for inventing the detective story, gave way to a mystery many decades later.
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We decided to pursue it, and, well, the next two years were a detective story to trace the origin of that little rock with various twists and turns.
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Reviews of Zootopia, Disney's new animated detective story about a rabbit cop, a con artist fox, and the animal-filled city they call home, have been overwhelmingly positive.
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"All the President's Men," Woodward's first collaboration with Bernstein, was at its heart a detective story, and the trail of evidence led the reporters into the Oval Office.
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How the diary emerged reads like a detective story, with Zoya Eroshok, a prominent Russian journalist, spending years piecing together the identity of its author and her fate.
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Much the same could be said about Gone Baby Gone, a startlingly powerful detective story that is also among the most morally nuanced crime films of the past decade.
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"I was wondering if it would be possible to tell a man's life story in the form of a detective story," True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatto told Entertainment Weekly.
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She tells the story in reverse chronological order, boy after boy in bleak succession; it feels like a gruesome detective story: how did this happen, and who to blame?
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So go ahead and think of "Say Something Bunny!" as a detective story, but know that its mysteries are mellower and stranger than what a census search can solve.
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That latter film, in particular, is well worth a watch; it's an entertaining detective story, a funny talking animal film, and a surprisingly effective introduction to ideas about systemic prejudice.
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When Karen borrows Diego's hat and starts wearing an overcoat pinned so it fits her small frame, Monsters shifts to a detective story, following her on her hunt for clues.
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The real romance is between Cam's mother, Maddie, a famous detective-story writer who's just come through a successful bout with chemo, and Kirstin's cantankerous, aggressive and overprotective father, Sam.
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Like any good detective story, clues advance the narrative: a bowl, complete with wooden spoon and an unfinished meal — a discovery that suggests that whoever lived here left in a hurry.
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Those pictures reveal the dunes as being "finger-like rays of green emission extending equatorward" and hint at a "detective story" about the physics that produce them, according to the study.
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This sometimes surreal, always grungy hardboiled detective story pulls from palettes I've only seen in much tinier independent games or else from the world beyond games: Stark, yet hopeful conversations about addiction.
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I'm all for anything fantasy and sci-fi, so this sounds great, especially since it brings together Valerian star Delevingne and a genuine former elf in what sounds like a hardboiled detective story.
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In 1937, The New Yorker published James Thurber's "The Macbeth Murder Mystery," about an avid reader of Agatha Christie who picks up a paperback copy of "Macbeth," mistakenly assuming it's a detective story.
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Night Moves, with Gene Hackman, that kind of detective story where the stakes are very small — he's just trying to find a missing person, talking to different low-life characters and collecting clues.
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It's a detective story set in a gritty cyberpunk world where no one ever dies, every deviancy is available for a price, and staying young is as simple as buying a new body.
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The tale, told with the cooperation of Osage Nation citizens, was framed as a classic detective story, featuring a white FBI agent who goes about unraveling the mysterious slayings of one family in particular.
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And in the stylish new film Gemini, director Aaron Katz flips the switch on the classic Los Angeles gumshoe detective story—and the women onscreen provide their own versions of both cop and criminal.
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Eco was virtually unknown outside university circles until well into middle age, when he found himself an international celebrity overnight after he published his first novel, an unorthodox detective story set in a medieval monastery.
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Fortunately, Night Call is not interested in the question of "whodunnit?" and so the dubious answers it comes up don't ruin the game in the way that they might in a more traditional detective story.
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"The Great Pretender," the new book by the author of "Brain on Fire," is another medical detective story, but this time the person at the heart of the mystery is a doctor, not a patient.
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For those in the first camp, like Maureen Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, "Leaving Neverland" is the smoking gun in the final act of a detective story filled with near misses and false alarms.
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The first half of Inheritance reads like an emotional thriller-slash-detective story, as Shapiro uses the tools of modern genealogy—genetic data and Google—to peel back the layers on a long-buried family secret.
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Douglas — who celebrated his 101st birthday on December 9 — starred in classic movies such as 1949's Champion, which earned him his first Academy Award for best actor nomination, and Ace in the Hole and Detective Story.
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Once he and Nadia meet, the show takes on the quality of a good noir detective story: Two unlikely allies race through New York City at night, trying to work out why the universe glued them together.
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The affection Saunders demonstrates for his most flawed characters, as well as his easy stylistic balance between comedy and reverence, bring to mind similar features in "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," Michael Chabon's pulpy, alternative-reality detective story.
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I need to acknowledge just how hard of a job that can be, to do this sort of commentary WELL, and to do so while, well, enjoying being a pulpy detective story set in a Lovecraftian universe.
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And now the book is on display at the library, which has suddenly found one of its most precious possessions at the center of a literary detective story mixing old-fashioned scholarship, social media virality and sheer coincidence.
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The Sense of an Ending tackles this phenomenon in a tale that sounds like a detective story, but plays more like a quiet coming of age drama — except the person coming of age is about to be a grandfather.
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In the preface to his 2010 novel "The Guilty Secret," the Chinese author Liu Yongbiao expressed his desire to write a suspense-filled detective story about an alluring female writer who dodges arrest despite committing a string of murders.
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Clarke Heston was known for her roles in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story on Broadway, which opened in 1949; her first feature, Atomic City, opposite Gene Barry; and The Greatest Show on Earth, which premiered in 1952 and also starred her husband.
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The second part of the novel develops into a Bolañesque detective story in search of La Negra, presumably the pseudonym of María Vargas, a painter working in the 1960s who was well-known in the bohemian circles of Buenos Aires.
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Also coming next year is the long-awaited second season of The Wolf Among Us. The series — an adaptation of the comic Fables — debuted way back in 2014, and introduced an intriguing detective story set in a dark fairytale world.
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It's a detective story, like Blade Runner, but it's also set in a world where humanity has more or less conquered death, where your consciousness, stored on a chip, can be "resleeved" in a new human body, should you so desire.
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The result is a powerful and suspenseful film, part detective story and part courtroom drama, fueled by a potent mix of curiosity and indignation and full of memorable characters speaking in the lively idioms and varied accents of New York.
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Technically it's misleading, though, because Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom) and Sam Waterston (Law and Order) are titans of TV. One of the best movies of 2017 was this understated detective story set on the titular Eastern Shoshone/Northern Arapaho reservation in Wyoming.
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"Creepy" certainly works — looks and feels — like a horror movie, but it also has the conundrums of a detective story, the emotional currents of a domestic drama and the quickening pulse of a psychological thriller, a combination that creates a kind of destabilization.
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If Edgar Allan Poe had taken time out from inventing Gothic horror fiction and the detective story to write a book suited for precocious 5-year-olds, the result might well have sounded a lot like this deliciously strange and lugubrious monologue.
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YOU KNOW YOU DO. Gwyneth Paltrow may be the weakest part of this ensemble comedy built around her, but Emma is still an endearing adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel about a blithely oblivious matchmaker, famously billed as Britain's first detective story.
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The award-winning game has taken the detective story and the narrative RPG and welded them together so uniquely that it has, in a couple short months, become a new critical standard for thinking about games and the way they tell themselves.
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In one sense, it's a detective story which involves multiple people who were suspicious of Rudy and started to look into him, from the FBI, to collectors, to wine experts, to Bill Koch, the American billionaire who was duped by Rudy, and Bill's investigator.
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As evidence of an entertainment that succeeds largely on its own terms, consider "The Game's Afoot" — evidence being the salient word for a 70-minute event from a young company, Les Enfants Terribles, that functions less as a play than as an interactive detective story.
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By bringing an American-style detective story to Weimar Berlin — a city Mr. Kutscher calls the most American European city — he has helped popularize an era that has remained shrouded in Germany because of the monstrosities and guilt of the Nazi era that succeeded it.
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This true tale -- part detective story, part underwater adventure, part spiritual journey -- swept me across three continents as I helped retrace the route of the Henrietta Marie slave ship, which sank off the coast of Key West in 1700 after delivering 190 enslaved African people to Jamaica.
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Since this is real life and not a fictional detective story, Shirkers is a mystery film that lacks the cathartic moment of finding all the answers, and yet the digging proves therapeutic, especially as the filmmakers find solidarity among others who have been deceived by Cardona.
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"The Return" is, at once, a suspenseful detective story about a writer investigating his father's fate at the hands of a brutal dictatorship, and a son's efforts to come to terms with his father's ghost, who has haunted more than half his life by his absence.
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The great detective-story writer was not to find it so easy a second time: He had to fight a legal machine with vested interests in obstruction, and the convicted murderer he was supporting was not a genteel professional but a gambler, a foreigner and a Jew.
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Put it all together, and it feels rushed and forced, as if the filmmakers looked at the clock, realized they were running out of time and did a speed run through the final hour of what until now had been a very meticulous, patient detective story.
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The film is a surprisingly twisty detective story — a kiddie noir with neon-soaked streets and double crosses nestled within double crosses — and it can become easy to get lost in the dozens upon dozens of Pokémon that are at least somewhat integral to the plot.
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Among his most intriguing explorations is his teasing out of not just Conan Doyle's personal history but the history of the detective story itself, beginning with the Book of Daniel and taking us through Voltaire, Baron Cuvier, Émile Gaboriau and others before landing at 221B Baker Street.
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The same post-genre sensibility can be found in his more recent work as a director on the films Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, another loose, comic LA detective story, and Iron Man 3, the franchise entry that has made the most of Robert Downey Jr.'s considerable comic talents.
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Alongside 1992's slow-burning The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the late filmmaker Curtis Hanson made an indelible impression on American cinema with this neo-noir detective story starring the ensemble cast of Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell, Simon Baker, and David Straithairn.
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"When I was writing the novel I thought of it as a super-natural detective story, and to this day I cannot recall having a conscious intention to terrifying anybody, which you may take, I suppose, as an admission of failure on an almost stupefying scale," Blatty told The Huffington Post in 2011.
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"The evidence points to an increase in emissions nearly 10 years after the production was supposedly phased out, so it was very much a detective story for us to try to unravel," said Stephen Montzka, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and one of the study's authors, told VICE News.
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"The evidence points to an increase in emissions nearly 22018 years after the production was supposedly phased out, so it was very much a detective story for us to try to unravel," said Stephen Montzka, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and one of the study's authors, told VICE News.
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None of the men — or their families — knew about the others, which naturally led to questions and has inspired the director Tim Wardle to turn their mysterious history into a detective story in reverse, one that begins with the seeming denouement (the happy reunion) and then moves back and forth across time.
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By the time Woodward and Bernstein were done with their stories, had published their book "All The President's Men" and then had the book transformed into a hit movie by Robert Redford, Watergate was forever more the "greatest detective story of all time," and must never be likened to any other political crime or transgression.
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That evolving cast allows French to escape from one of the great problems of the detective story: namely, how to make the detective into someone who changes and evolves over time — a character with a genuine character arc — while also preserving the status quo enough to allow them to continue building their lives around solving mysteries.
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The series evolved considerably in tone and content over the course of 20 years — the Corwin books start as lone-fantasy-hero novels with a touch of hard-bitten detective story (much like the Dresden Files books), and turn into an epic war story, while the Merlin books are more about a cosmic hacker on a quest, trying to reshape reality.
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Simenon's cleverly structured detective story is rejiggered to emphasize the mental chess match between the imperturbable Maigret (Baur) and a grandiose medical student (played with appropriate intensity by the Russian émigré Valéry Inkijinoff, a leading player in "Storm Over Asia," Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 silent.) The early films are lean; "Un Carnet de Bal," which requires 19763 minutes to detail the quest of a young and most unmerry widow to regain her past, is not.
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