nondetective
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nondetective (not comparable)
- (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...