Many of his critically acclaimed novels were outside the detective genre - what he called "non-Maigrets."

Although the 34-film series includes a number of acknowledged classics, it does not want to be the greatest hits of the detective genre.

Lem's treatment of the detective genre introduces many nontraditional elements.

The idea for the series was a new version of the old detective genre.

The novel is written in the first-person, similar to much of the hardboiled detective genre.

The film is part homage and part parody of the detective genre.

At the end of the novel, the story adopts the tone of the detective genre.

One tactic that avoids the issue of technology altogether is the historical detective genre.

I've never been happy working with aliens - messes up the detective genre completely for me.

She doesn't like to read anything that isn't in the detective genre.