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- 6. Sherlock Holmes uses this method of reasoning to solve crimes.
- 7. The author of one of the first English-language detective stories.
- 8. Scientific tests or techniques used to solve a crime.
- 12. A piece of information used to help solve a crime.
- 15. This rule means that the author must provide the reader with enough clues to solve the mystery themselves. (Two words.)
- 16. This type of detective fiction reveals the perpetrator to the reader in the beginning of the story, but not to the detective.
- 20. This word refers to the detective stories published in cheap magazines in the 30s and 40s.
- 23. A type of character in certain kinds of detective fiction. Loosely translates to 'dangerous woman'. (Two words.)
- 26. Someone who takes the law into their own hands, like Batman.
- 27. In this subgenre of detective fiction, the main character is usually a thief.
- 28. A false clue, or a clue which points in the wrong direction. (Two words.)
- 30. As per the old cliche, this character 'did it'.
- 31. Another word for gun.
- 32. Sometimes a detective will be 'only one day away' from this when they are called on to solve a crime.
- 33. In this type of fiction, the main character is usually a victim, a suspect, or a perpetrator.
- 34. All the facts and information pointing towards the truth.
- 35. This professor stars in a detective video game.
- 36. The person who committed the crime.
- 39. The act of cracking a safe using nitroglycerine. (Two words.)
- 41. Another word for bullet.
- 42. An act which is against the law.
- 43. The way someone committed the crime.
- 44. This famous detective sidekick was an army doctor.
- 45. Another word for robbery.
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- 1. A fancy word for 'enemy'. Sherlock Holmes's is Moriarty.
- 2. The reason somebody committed the crime.
- 3. Someone who saw the crime being committed.
- 4. A person who may have committed a crime.
- 5. Someone who helped commit the crime.
- 9. This type of detective fiction usually features no explicit violence.
- 10. The person tasked with finding out who committed the crime.
- 11. A variety of detective story. The name derives from the question the detective and reader might ask themselves.
- 13. When a story ends in the middle of the climax.
- 14. A detective one can hire for a fee. (Two words.)
- 17. This Latin phrase means a person can only be found guilty of a crime after it is proven that a crime was committed at all.
- 18. Latin for 'elsewhere', having one of these means someone could not have committed the crime.
- 19. The act of breaking into a house.
- 21. During this process a dead body is examined for information to help solve the murder.
- 22. The anxious feeling detective fiction creates in its readership.
- 24. The act of taking another person's life, and often the focus of detective fiction.
- 25. A kind of detective fiction which focuses on action, violence, and organized crime.
- 29. How an American detective might refer to prison. (Two words.)
- 37. The element in a detective story that causes worry and anxiety in the reader.
- 38. One of Agatha Christie's most famous detectives.
- 40. Another word for detective.