Sentence examples for literary sleuth from inspiring English sources

Not so the literary sleuth.

Mr Holmes, starring Ian McKellen, had the advantage of strong recognition and affection for the popular literary sleuth.

I liked CON JOBS and IN A SLUMP, and was momentarily tricked when I filled in ARLENE instead of ARSENE for the "literary sleuth Lupin".

The Times recruited 'the world's foremost literary sleuth' to the cause - Professor Don Foster, or 'Doctor Comma', as he quickly became known in my household.

Two years ago, a Vassar English professor and literary sleuth named Don Foster created a mild stir by arguing that Moore was a fraud.

Norman Sherry, who has died aged 91, was a tireless literary sleuth whose three-volume biography of Graham Greene consumed him for 30 years.

The translator also went by a pseudonym, Sabine d'Estrée, whom some literary sleuths long suspected was Mr. Seaver, though he never admitted to it.

In 1968 she oversaw the resumption of Detective, a 1964 crime-anthology series drawing on literary sleuths from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to HRF Keating's Inspector Ghote.

Whether he has you wondering where the literary sleuths of "Arcadia," or how the rock-obsessed Czech dissident in "Rock 'n' Roll" (now at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in Manhattan), will end up, it is clear that Mr. Stoppard loves a little mystery.

With Ms. Rostenberg, Ms. Stern wrote several joint memoirs of their heady lives amid dust, morocco and gilded edges: "Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business" (A. Schram, 1974); "Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion" (Doubleday, 1997); and "Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship" (Free Press, 2001).

Flavia de Luce, the 11-year-old heroine of Alan Bradley's first mystery, THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE (Delacorte, $23), goes her way on a beat-up bicycle she calls Gladys, more independent and demonstrably naughtier than her literary sister-sleuths.