mystery story


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Noun1.mystery story - a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or moviemystery story - a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
detective story - a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
murder mystery - a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered
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Translations

mystery story

nracconto del mistero
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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Jen McKinlay's Better Late Than Never (9780399583735, $25.00) provides a 'library lover's' mystery story centered around a library director at the Briar Creek Public Library.
Against the scenic backdrop of Iceland a cat-and-mouse game is played out with the killer one step ahead of Teddy and Iceland's wilderness challenges in a gripping mystery story. Mark de Castrique's A Specter of Justice (9781464204722, $26.95) provides a Sam Blackman mystery as it tells of a private detective's attempt to ease his conscience by helping his partner and lover conduct a fundraiser for newly orphaned twin boys killed in a courtroom shootout.
Poe is the father of the modern mystery story, but Sommerlad shows that Poe's reach extends to realms as diverse as science fiction and romance.
Emma, 12, Idaho, wrote the mystery story, "The Mystery of Baldy Mountain," that was published in the November/December 2014 issue of NMG magazine.
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