Sentence examples for detective tales from inspiring English sources

Has my reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal detective tales been ruined by seeing too many movies, TV adaptations, spoofs, homages, cartoons and imitations down the years?

Instead, we have a tendency to watch made-for-television drama series with an adult content; mostly these are from the HBO network in the US, but we also vegetate in front of Scandinavian detective tales and French policiers.

Gernsback's magazine Amazing Stories (founded 1926) broke ground for many imitators and successors, including his own later periodicals Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, and Scientific Detective Monthly (later known as Amazing Detective Tales), and a torrent of other pulp publications.

Later in the 20th century, readers, listeners and viewers of detective tales learned about France from Simenon's Maigret and the Netherlands through Nicolas Freeling's Commissaris Van der Valk, who achieved the rare double of topping both the TV ratings lists (in the ITV series starring Barry Foster) and the pop charts, with the Simon Park Orchestra's recording of the theme tune, "Eye Level".

Rafael de Soto's unusual compositions tend to stand out, like an image from Detective Tales magazine in which a snarling man with crossed arms fires a gun with one hand while struggling to jam shut the door of a small bus-station locker with the other.

A series of short cartoons has been produced featuring the characters from Strange Detective Tales.

In "Stories We Tell" the relatives' contradicting stories transform a forgettable detective tale into a complex meditation on memory.

There's no gainsaying the story here — it's a juicy, freaky detective tale with a big payoff.

That is something he'll have to discover in the course of this metaphysical detective tale.

The film plays as both a detective tale and as a look at life in Hollywood, with all of its ups and downs.

Every detective tale needs a red herring, and I had mine: What if I pursued the author of "Velvet Lawn" instead?