police procedural

English

Noun

police procedural (plural police procedurals)

1. A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Unlike in other types of crime fiction, the perpetrator may be known at the outset of the story.

Translations

sub-genre of crime fiction

• French: roman policier (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: poliziottesco m

See also

• whodunit, whodunnit