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mystery story

n. a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie [syn: mystery, whodunit]

Usage examples of "mystery story".

He went up to his own room after his meal and tried to read a very thrilling mystery story.

Lewis's _Dark Tower_ depends not only upon its being a first class horror/mystery story in its own right as far as it goes (and we only have the first sixty-four pages of it) but upon this intriguing element of its missing ending.