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Mystery story   /mˈɪstəri stˈɔri/   Listen
Mystery story

noun
1.
A story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie.  Synonyms: mystery, whodunit.





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"Mystery story" Quotes from Famous Books



... This mystery story of a New York apartment house is now in its seventh printing, has been republished in England and translated into German and Italian. With ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
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... rains. Some one threw away a cigar-end. The wet road shining in the glare of our pink candles, and the lightning flashing intermittently so that the mountain-tops sprang out to disappear again in the darkness; we felt as if we were living in the introduction of a mystery story from the Strand Magazine. ...
— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon
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... try to talk to those little Guineys. Their boss wouldn't let 'em say a word and you'd lose your chance of watching 'em. Make it a kind of a mystery story." ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole
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Words linked to "Mystery story" :   murder mystery, detective story, story


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