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Short detective novels are compact works focusing on solving a crime, typically featuring a central investigator, a limited cast of suspects, and a tightly plotted mystery resolved within a concise narrative structure.
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Detective in the crosshairs
No.
The department must be trusted. And the agency should send reliable people to work there.
He closed all the windows with his mouse.
- All open... you are a detective and you leave evidence like this? Maybe I do need a break.
Without realizing it, he missed the slip of a criminal.
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Spade
He sighed out thinking long, what did Nate want with Van Horne?
Van Horne, another very dangerous person in the underworld.
Very cunning, two faced and untrustworthy.
Spade had never liked him, not once since he became Don
There was just something about him that Spade hated so much.
He always had a smirk on like he knew something everyone else didn't.
You could never find him with a frown on, even when he's pissed, he still had that stupid smirk on.
Van Horne didn't do business like other made men, he didn't deal on drugs, or human trafficking, so he worked closely with the police just as much as he worked closely with men from the underworld.
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COUNTER MEASURES
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I lay awake most of the night thinking nasty thoughts about this case.
It was probably the most brutal I had worked on since becoming a private detective. The more recent cases, ones which I have not bothered documenting, had been regular safe jobs supplied by the local firm of solicitors, Hogbin, Moruzzi and Marshall. Boring but profitable. Not a corpse in sight and the only danger I had faced was from my accountant the officious Louise Ann Prime over my expenses – “a new suit to replace the one ruined due to lying in a wet ditch for two hours waiting for a local councillor to complete an amorous assignation with a married woman in the back of his BMW – you must be joking, Mr Handful.”
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The Billionaire Detective
She can't help herself they just bring back bad memories for me.
Towards the end of the night the evening had died down only a few people where left In the restaurant. She makes myself a cup of tea and sits at the bar and drinks it waiting till the diners all leave.
All of a sudden she felt the hairs at the back of her neck stand up turning around seeing the detective staring at her, he pulled out a bar stool and sat down and said to her " I'm sorry if I'm staring at you but you look really familiar, I don't know where I've seen you but I feel as though I now you, or maybe you look like someone I just can't figure it out". I smile at him and nod my head bring my hair down to cover the s
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THE DETECTIVE’S PARTNER
He didn’t even notice me when he walked by, there must have been something very important in his mind.
The Deputy had told me, I’d be working with a man, I was starting to hope it was the one that walked in, even though he looked fierce and tough; he was still the handsomest among the other detectives, he was tall and had a great body; just the type of man I had always dreamed off.
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The Billionaire's Detective
"Don't promise what you can't deliver. Many detectives worked the case before. They all ended up murdered. I'm warning you for your own good."
I couldn't stop the shiver that bolts down my spine. All the detectives who solved this case ended up dead? And without doubt, by the killers of the boy?! My brain went through an instant override, and then it dawned on me. Whoever might have killed this boy sure has mad connections.
My pulse runs at an accelerating speed. I sip from my coffee. Then, maintaining calmness, I speak. "I've never failed a case in my life." And that's a fact. "We have a deal?"
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Dirty Little Secrets(Short Stories)
11:54
11:55
11:56
11:59
12:00
Once the clock stroked 12, a shiver ran down my spine ,my body was aching for a release and he wasn’t in sight yet.
I heaved a sigh,as the clock stroked 12:20 a few minutes later.
The library had a few people in it but nevertheless I decided to go round placing books back where they were meant to be.
I took off my jacket and started going round, placing books back, I got to the back row of the library , it didn’t have a enough light, so people hardly sat there to read, there was a book on one of the tables.
It was a Novel by Ana huang famous author for the twisted series, it was Twisted hate and the open page was one the steamy hate sex scenes between Jules and
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Beyond The Hallow Grave: Editingle Indie House Anthology (Ed
Sharon McQueen looked happy, and when she blew me a kiss, worded ‘Thank you’, and then slowly faded from sight, my heart skipped a beat.
When I finally turned and looked at the road before us, the world indeed seemed to be a brighter place.
Author’s note.
In my first novel, I wanted to tip my hat to a very influential story, Raymond Chandler’s the Big Sleep, and though many elements of this hardboiled detective story made it into my tale, the one thing I could never seem to make work was the romance story. So, when I was asked if I had such a story that could be entered into this collection, I realised here was my chance to fix that omission. There are also elements from other classic noir/r
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A Murderer's Luck
In the end, Meredith and George decided to arrange a meeting with the police detective assigned to Helena’s case, Detective Sergio.
He was a tall, lean man with clean-cut hazelnut hair. Alice could make out the wrinkles in his forehead and cheeks as he settled himself in front of her. She watched the man remove his black coat and placed it on the table before taking out a medium-sized notepad and a pen.
Alice loved comic books about detectives. Her favorite was James Gordon; he was Batman’s acquaintance and a respectable captain of the Gotham City Police Department. Whenever she saw a detective, she could not help but be mesmerized by their badges and work.
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The Final Cut
“So the guy’s getting anonymous links to an underground darknet site.”
“By guy you mean DC Harlow, right? The detective whose wife and child were burned alive.”
“That’s right.”
“Very Derek Raymond.”
“What?”
“The protagonist I mean, like the unnamed police officer who narrates all of Raymond’s Factory novels.”
“Oh yeah, yes, that’s it exactly.”
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Read Short Detective Novels Novels & Stories Online
Here are 18 novels related to short detective novels for you to read online. Generally, short detective novels or similar novel stories can be found in various book genres such as Mafia, Mystery/Thriller and Romance. Start your reading from Detective in the crosshairs at GoodNovel!
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Classic short story collections are a goldmine for that, honestly. I've been revisiting Agatha Christie's 'The Labours of Hercules' lately. Poirot tackles twelve cases, each riffing on a mythological labour, and most are under fifty pages. It's perfect for a commute or before bed—you get a complete puzzle, a clever twist, and the satisfaction of a solution without the commitment of a whole novel.
People often overlook the 'Ellery Queen' short stories, but the early ones from the 1930s are fantastic brainteasers. The language is crisp, the clues are fair, and they have this wonderful 'Challenge to the Reader' break where they dare you to solve it. Modern stuff can get so psychological, which I love too, but sometimes you just want the pure logic of a locked room. I've found the pacing in these older collections is snappier; they don't waste a word.
For something more recent, try Paul Doherty's medieval short story collections, like 'The Demon Archer'. They're historical, obviously, but each tale is a self-contained murder in a monastery or castle, solved by Brother Athelstan. The atmosphere is thick, but the plots are direct. I keep a collection like that on my nightstand for when my brain is too fried for a complex subplot but I still crave that mystery itch.
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