nondetective

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ detective.

Adjective

nondetective (not comparable)

  1. (literature) Not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).
    • 2000, David Lehman, The perfect murder: a study in detection:
      The closest character to Dupin in Poe's nondetective fiction is Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher," that gothic nightmare of decadence...
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