murder plot
Planned lethal crime
A murder plot is a plan or conspiracy to kill someone.
The term appears in crime reporting, detective fiction, and discussions of historical assassinations: Police uncovered a murder plot targeting the mayor.
It implies premeditation and often multiple conspirators working together toward a killing.
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- premeditatedPlanned before acting
- hitmanProfessional paid murderer
motive · secret affair · victim · prime suspect · suspect · alibi · dead body · body count · evidence · betrayal · poison · weapon · smoking gun · accomplice · revenge · sinister · detective · crime
- Victorian melodramavillain, heroine, hero, damsel in distress, fainting
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- suspensesuspense, suspenseful, tension, nail-biter, nail-biting
- Shakespeare elementsiambic pentameter, soliloquy, blank verse, aside, couplet
- succession crisessuccession crisis, succession dispute, disputed succession, succession war, war of succession
- Revenge TragedyHamlet, avenger, retribution, blood revenge, Electra
intent toward life
murder plotrescue mission
Operation to save someone
rescue plan · escape plan · humanitarian mission · medical intervention · witness protection
murder, plot, murders, murdered, murderer, murderers, murdering, murderous, murderously