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The 22 pages that link to Police procedural, each with the reason it gives.

• Detective fictionCompared with: It replaces the lone solver’s puzzle with institutional procedures and collaborative work.

• Golden Age of Detective FictionCompared with: It shifts attention from an individual puzzle-solving detective to collective investigative work.

• WhodunitCompared with: Procedurals may prioritize investigative work over a single, tightly controlled culprit puzzle.

• ThrillerCompared with: Procedurals emphasize investigative process rather than the thriller's escalating crisis.

• Mystery fictionCompared with: Procedurals foreground investigative systems more than the puzzle’s concealed solution.

• The WireCompared with: The series uses investigative work but gives sustained attention to institutions beyond policing.

• Legal thrillerCompared with: It centers police investigation rather than legal representation and court proceedings.

• Fair-play mysteryCompared with: Procedurals foreground institutional process rather than the audience's puzzle-solving contract.

• Locked-room mysteryCompared with: Procedurals foreground evidence-gathering processes rather than a single impossible-scene puzzle.

• Legal dramaCompared with: It centers investigation before prosecution, while legal drama often centers advocacy and adjudication.

• Medical dramaCompared with: It uses case-centered workplace storytelling, but its central institution is policing.

• Kathy ReichsCompared with: Reichs’s stories center an anthropologist’s expertise rather than a police officer’s role.

• Ross MacdonaldCompared with: Macdonald’s novels use an independent detective rather than the institutional investigative focus typical of this genre.