WordNet
n. novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end [syn: detective novel]
Usage examples of "mystery novel".
It must be said, however, that the more than usually extravagant plotting is at times rather too far-fetched to be convincing even on the level of the murder mystery novel, though the novel as a whole is undeniably entertaining.
If he was displeased with your handling of the conclusion, he will not rush out to buy your next mystery novel.
He also collaborated with John Sladek on a mystery novel, _Black Alice_ (1968) and a Gothic, _The House That Fear Built_ (1966).
Another novelette collection followed in 1950, another mystery novel appeared in 1971, and he published a mainstream novel in 1975.
Author of a paperback mystery novel that Stucky is reading aboard the Deep Fathom when Pitt calls over the radio.
One of them is explored in more detail, his weakness of character, his artistic interests, his dependence on a strong-willed wife delicately and sensitively presented, but not to such an extent that the conventional form of the mystery novel is endangered.
In fact, at our first workshop the woman who had sat to the left of me and the man who had sat to the right of me both sold a mystery novel in a month.
After all that they had endured, they still believed in a world as ordered as any in a mystery novel.
Other mystery novel series featuring a continuing detective (Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe, etc.
Author of a paperback mystery novel that Stucky isreading aboard the Deep Fathom when Pitt calls over the radio.
Perhaps a tad too predictable for a mystery novel, but the public likes reassuring formats.