The phrase "age detective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who investigates or determines the age of something, often in contexts like art, antiques, or forensic science.
Example: "The age detective examined the painting to determine its authenticity and age."
Alternatives: "age assessor" or "age analyst".
Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson's excellent debut novel, Snowblind, was widely praised for its distinctive blend of Nordic noir and golden age detective fiction.
She has said that the rigid form of a traditional "golden age" detective novel, like the 14 lines and strict rhyming sequence of a sonnet, sets the writer's imagination free.
Only a half-wit could guess it". He dismissed the British golden age detective novel as "futzing around with timetables and bits of charred paper and who trampled the jolly old flowering arbutus under the library window".
He dismissed the British golden age detective novel as "futzing around with timetables and bits of charred paper and who trampled the jolly old flowering arbutus under the library window".
The gameplay is pleasantly varied – there are plenty of sequences in which Takkar has to employ stealth, or use his hunter's vision to track prey and effectively operate as a Stone Age detective.
The basic idea that the story is a challenge to the reader, and a fair one, is the motor on which most golden age detective fiction runs – and it is a motor absent from the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Social inequality seems to have meant nothing to Christie, or to most other golden-age detective novelists.
By Emily Nussbaum "Top of the Lake," a coming-of-age detective story, revisits Campion's enduring themes.
But there's also Fleming and golden-age detective fiction; and Bonfiglioli's second wife, Margaret – editor of a memoir-cum-reader, The Mortdecai ABC, which now changes hands for north of £100 – points to a debt to Kipling.
Adair has taken a genre that was artificial in the first place - Raymond Chandler called golden-age detective fiction "an arid formula which could not even satisfy its own implications" - and piled it high with new layers of artificiality, in the form of in-jokes, clever asides about the nature of criticism and knowing winks at the reader.
In the books, Gossip Girl chronicles online the activities of the half-dozen or so main characters, and her postings are interspersed with traditional narrative; on the TV show, Gossip Girl's reports are presented as voice-overs, by Kristen Bell,* who was the eponymous teen-age detective and narrator in "Veronica Mars".
