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policier

American  
[paw-lee-syey] / pɔ liˈsyeɪ /

noun

policiers plural
  1. French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.


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Donnie Wahlberg stars in a spinoff of the perennial policier “Blue Bloods.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

So why single out the Australian outback policier “Mystery Road,” whose second season comes to Acorn TV on Monday?

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2020

France’s Arnaud Desplechin with “Oh Mercy!,” a policier set, as many of his recent films have been, in his birthplace of Roubaix;

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019

As a Harry Brandt novel, “The Whites” is more of a policier than Price’s previous fiction—more plot-driven and less deeply engaged by the anthropology of its urban communities.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2015

“This,” said Dr. Constantine, “is more wildly improbable than any roman policier I have ever read.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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