Everything you need to understand or teach Detective Story by Sidney Kingsley.
Sidney Kingsley's play Detective Story was a critical and popular success during its time, garnering the 1949 Edgar Allan Poe Award and a successful run on Broadway. Detective Story was adapted to the screen as a major motion picture starring Kirk Douglas and became a prototype for later movie and television police crime dramas.
Detective Story centers on the decisions of James McLeod, a New York City police detective who self-righteously regards himself as...