Entertainment / Literature / Mystery Novel: A novel focused on suspense and solving a mystery--especially a murder, theft, kidnapping, or some other crime. The protagonist faces inexplicable events, threats, assaults, and unknown forces or antagonists. Conventionally, the hero is a keenly observant individual (such as Sherlock Holmes) and the police are depicted as incompetent or incapable of solving the crime by themselves. Many of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and Agatha Christie are mystery novels. Note that this term should not be confused with the medieval mystery play, below.
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Mystery Adjective Synonyms: puzzle, enigma, conundrum, riddle, question
Mystery Noun Synonyms: detective story or novel, murder (story), whodunit
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Novel Noun Synonyms: story, tale, narrative, romance, novella, novelette, best-seller, blockbuster
Novel Verb Synonyms: new, unusual, unfamiliar, unconventional, fresh, different, original, creative, untested, untried
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Entertainment / Literature / Detective Novel: A mystery novel focusing on a brilliant investigator--often a detective--solving a crime. See mystery novel. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Mystery Play: A religious play performed outdoors in the medieval period that enacts an event from the Bible, such as the story of Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, the crucifixion, and so on. Although the origins are un MORE