Detective & Mystery Fiction

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