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Definition: Detective Story |
Detective StoryNoun1. A narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Detective Story is a 1951 film which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detectives squad. It stars Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell and Lee Grant.The movie was adapted by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan from the play by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by William Wyler.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Eleanor Parker), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lee Grant), Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay.
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Movie/TV Titles | Detective Story (1970) The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965) Detective Story (1951) Bobby Bumps and the Detective Story (1916) Thrilling Detective Story (1906) | |
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Health | When they do, some scientists think that this detective story will turn out to have a number of culprits. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
detective story | 47 |
animatrix detective story | 9 |
true detective story | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "detective story"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | roman me detektivë, libër policor. (various references) | |
Arabic | قصة بوليسية, رواية بوليسية. (various references) | |
Czech | detektivní příbìh, detektivka (detective novel, thriller). (various references) | |
French | roman policier (detective novel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | krimi (thrill, thriller). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 探偵小説 , 捕物帳 , 捕物帖 (detective's memoirs). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんていしょうせつ, とりものちょう (detective's memoirs). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etectiveday orystay.(various references) | |
Romanian | roman poliţist. (various references) | |
Russian | детективный рассказ. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | detektivska priča. (various references) | |
Spanish | novela policial. (various references) | |
Swedish | detektivhistoria, deckare (Dick, gumshoe, shamus, sleuth, sleuthhound, whodunit). (various references) | |
Turkish | polisiye hikâye. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-o-r-s-t-t-t-v-y" | |
-4 letters: detectives. | |
-5 letters: coderives, corvettes, deceivers, decretive, detecters, detective, detectors, detersive, directest, discovery, divorcees, overedits, secretive, serviette, stevedore, trisected. | |
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