We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.

In "The Victorian Age in Literature" G. K. Chesterton calls it "Probably the best detective tale in the world."

The modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective tales stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.

Once Jake is involved in the search for his parents the novel becomes a time-travelling detective tale, with Jake and friends forced to work out one conundrum after another.

The writer of detective tales makes a man a duke solely in order to blast him with a charge of burglary.

The Prismatic Bezel, Sebastian's first novel, "a rollicking parody of the setting of a detective tale" reflected in V's search for SK's Russian lover.

Take away the ceiling fans and dragon boats from Mr. Bradby's story, and you have a not-so-unusual detective tale stretched across a colorful, intriguing backdrop.

"The Name of the Rose," is a detective tale of monks in a 14th-century Italian abbey trying to solve a murder.

In a still-developing medical detective tale, Dr. Acheson and Dr. Keusch have been on the trail of the toxin, one way or another, for 25 years.

The discovery also set in motion a modern detective tale, an exhaustive investigation by the Kentucky authorities who worked for months to learn the identity of the dead man.