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mystery story

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mystery story

Work of fiction in which the evidence related to a crime or to a mysterious event is so presented that the reader has an opportunity to consider solutions to the problem, the author's solution being the final phase of the piece. The mystery story is an age-old popular genre and is related to several other forms. Elements of mystery may be present in narratives of horror or terror, pseudoscientific fantasies, crime stories, accounts of diplomatic intrigue, affairs of codes and ciphers and secret societies, or any situation involving an enigma. See also detective story; gothic novel.



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And since it's coupled with a mystery story that's humdrum from the start, boredom multiplies.
The debut novel Eunice Geil Smith, Treasure Hunt is a fun and creative mystery story of eleven-year-old Maggie Diver, her family and friends set in the mid-nineteenth-century.
In this unusual, imaginative mystery story Paul Tomm, a 23-year-old reporter on a small town Connecticut newspaper, is assigned to write an obituary for an eccentric Estonian professor who has died suddenly at a nearby university, apparently leaving no family and only one friend, an attractive music teacher.
 
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