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Definition of Mystery story
1. Noun. A story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie.
Generic synonyms: Story
Specialized synonyms: Detective Story, Murder Mystery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mystery Story
Literary usage of Mystery story
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"$1.75 THE HOUSE OF CARDS By Hannah Gartland "Without a doubt 'The House of Cards'
is by far the best mystery story brought out in many a day."— NY Herald. ..."
2. The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information about Literary Work of by Nathaniel Clark Fowler (1913)
"It is difficult to form the plot of a mystery story so as to sustain the interest
of the reader for several hundred pages, and then to clear up the puzzle ..."
3. The Snare of Strength by Randolph Bedford (1905)
"$7.50 AT ALL BOOKSTORES OR SENT POSTPAID ON RECEIPT OF PRICE tbt Critics &>ap T
John Camden has written a good mystery story in which the amateur detective ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literatureby H.W. Wilson Company by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"... HARRIS DICKSON A fine, stirring mystery story of the lower Mississippi ...
The Clue of the Twisted Candle By EDGAR WALLACE A detective and mystery story ..."
5. Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the by Robert Wilson Neal (1914)
"Beginning with a puzzling outcome, the mystery story carries the reader, but
backward, through an explanation of the facts that explain this outcome. ..."
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