Genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.
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Examples for "mystery"
Examples for "mystery"
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We did know, however, that some mystery-somepositive danger-overhung our father.
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Cozies, thrillers, paranormals, police procedurals; every possible mystery genre to choose from.
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Of course, Mr Putin's personal relationships have long been shrouded in mystery.
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The boy pointed in the direction in which the mystery had appeared.
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It's still a mystery; no one seems to know exactly what happened.
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But in their true state I think the mysteries were really good.
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Of course, I believe there are mysteries none of us can explain.
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Clearly the writer of this believes in prophecies, in tongues, in mysteries.
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There were a thousand mysteries, a thousand things I wanted to know.
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The suspense is superb.... Barron brings historical mysteries to a new level.
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Otto Penzler has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the world of mystery fiction.
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He switched to crime and mystery fiction in the 1970s.
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Mystery fiction has entire subgenres about rogues.
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Really, Major, you seem to have made a speciality of detective fiction.
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The best buy in detective fiction for many a long day.
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What frivolity was detective fiction, compared to the hard-nosed reality of true literature!
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I don't have to shoehorn it into a detective fiction format.
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He also found time to keep up his reading of detective fiction, which he also enjoyed reviewing.
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Another gentleman, hurrying to catch a train, dashed into Womrath's for a mystery books.
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You read enough mystery books, you find that cooking is practically a pre-requisite for a gumshoe.
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Everyone carries a Glock in the mystery books.
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She doesn't read crime or mystery books.
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And me must thank Dame Agatha herself for one of the great solutions in mystery literature.