Usually means: Mystery involving investigation and solution.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word detective story:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. detective story: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. detective story: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detective story: Vocabulary.com
  4. detective-story: Wordnik
  5. detective story: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. detective story: Dictionary.com
  7. Detective Story (disambiguation), Detective Story (play), Detective Story, Detective story: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. detective story: Rhymezone
  9. detective story: FreeDictionary.org
  10. detective story: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. detective story: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. detective story, Detective Story: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detective story: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Detective Story)

noun:  a 1951 American crime drama directed by William Wyler and starring Kirk Douglas that tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad.
noun:  a 1949 play in three acts by American playwright Sidney Kingsley.
noun:  is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi.
noun:  is a 2007 Japanese crime film directed by Takashi Miike.

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