Usually means: Mystery fiction centered on investigation.
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  1. detective novel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. detective novel: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detective novel: Vocabulary.com
  4. detective novel: Dictionary.com
  5. Detective novel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. detective novel: Rhymezone
  7. detective novel: FreeDictionary.org
  8. detective novel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. detective novel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. detective novel: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end


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