Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character is often a detective (such as Sherlock Holmes), who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. Mystery fiction can involve a supernatural mystery in which the solution does not have to be logical and even in which there is no crime involved. This usage was common in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, whose titles such as Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery, and Spicy Mystery offered what were then described as complicated to solve and weird stories: supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol. That contrasted with parallel titles of the same names which contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction. The first use of "mystery" in that sense was by Dime Mystery, which started out as an ordinary crime fiction magazine but switched to "weird menace" during the later part of 1933. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre mystery fiction 200
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Joyland
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Edge of Dark Water
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Death Comes to Pemberley
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All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
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The Rembrandt Affair
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The Reversal
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Dead in the Family
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The Lost Symbol
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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Whispers of the Dead
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Budapest Noir
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The Angel's Game
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The Fire
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Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
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The Brass Verdict
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From Dead to Worse
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Where Are You Now?
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The Age of Doubt
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The Overlook
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The Secret Servant
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A Dirty Job
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Brodeck's Report
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Zugzwang
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The 6th Target
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All Together Dead
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The Poe Shadow
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The Chemistry of Death
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Half Moon Investigations
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Death Note
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August Heat
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The Wings of the Sphinx
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Definitely Dead
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