Sentences with phrase «kind of detective story»

This is a special kind of detective story.

Since this article isn't meant to be some kind of detective story, I think it's fair to point out at this stage that my answer to this question is a resounding «yes».

Not exact matches

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

The mixture of patriotic drama, detective story and espionage thriller knits together in the second half and pays off in a climactic bit of poetic justice that is a fantasy, a kind of con caper played on the Gestapo, yet is oddly satisfying despite the terrific cost in innocent lives.

I love memoir because it brings me so close to the writer's emotional experience, but Julie Metz's story goes even further by creating the kind of suspense usually associated with a detective novel.

Sure, it amuses me that we've somehow reverted back to using pixellated graphics and text - only stories despite spending so much time and effort getting away from them, but when it's as enjoyable as The Darkside Detective it's kind of hard to care.

A different kind of «ghost» story is at the center of Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the story is at the center of Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Story: Ghost of the Dusk.

Bloober Team have put together a game that touches just about every kind of aspect you'd want in a captivating cyberpunk detective story while bringing new ideas without overwhelming the player with too many mechanics, unnecessary moments, or forcing combat when there simply doesn't need to be any.