Sentence examples for indian detectives from inspiring English sources
Based on Tony Hillerman's novel, part of his series featuring Indian detectives, the solid, intriguing "Skinwalkers" is the first made-in-America product for the PBS "Mystery" franchise, usually given over to tweedy Brits like Hetty Wainthrop.
However, comics historian Craig Shutt, author of the Comics Buyer's Guide column "Ask Mister Silver Age", disagrees, noting that the Martian Manhunter debuted as a detective who used his alien abilities to solve crimes, in the "quirky detective" vein of contemporaneous DC characters who were "TV detectives, Indian detectives, supernatural detectives, [and] animal detectives".
Mr. Hillerman was not the first mystery writer to set a story on Indian land or to introduce a Native American detective to crime literature.
"It could be seen as a parody of "Ten Little Indians," the detective novel by Agatha Christie...but the reality is much more serious.
During the Civil War, Beadle's Dime Novels were especially popular with soldiers, who had lots of down time between their harrowing battles to read about detectives and Indian raids.
The best known was Call The Next Witness, a detective story which took the Indian Civil Service as its background.
In other words, Paliwal's success as a matrimonial detective is directly proportional to the failure of urban Indian marriage.
His account of the rediscovery of the Indian forest owlet (presumed dead for almost a century) reads like a gripping detective story.
Jameela Jamil, Kal Penn and several other stars of Indian descent have been cast in the upcoming animated kids' show "Mira, Royal Detective," Disney Junior announced on Thursday. .
Indian readers of English can today find homegrown works of chick lit, techie lit, detective fiction, even what the scholar E. Dawson Varughese has called "crick lit" — fiction about cricket.
