Detective story

Detective Story can refer to the following things:

• Detective fiction, a genre of fiction
• Detective Story (play), a 1949 play by Sidney Kingsley
  • Detective Story (1951 film), a film version of the play
• Tantei Monogatari (Detective Story), a Japanese TV series broadcast 1979 to 1980
• Detective Story (1983 film), a Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi
• Detective Story (2007 film), a Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike
• Detective Story Magazine, a magazine of detective fiction that ran from 1915 to 1949
• A Detective Story, a short film from the 2003 short-film compilation The Animatrix

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional or amateur—investigates a crime, often murder.