Think of “Detective,” Arthur Hailey’s first book in about seven years, as “Airport” set in a police department, as a “Hotel” populated by cops and robbers instead of guests.

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Novelist Arthur ... remains Hailey's best-loved work and prompted the disaster movie genre. The thriller follows events in the sky, and on the ground at a snow-logged airport, when a terrorist boards ...