mystery series
Recurring sleuth stories
A mystery series is a sequence of novels or other works featuring recurring characters—typically a detective or amateur sleuth—who solve crimes across multiple installments.
The appeal lies in both the puzzle of each individual case and the ongoing development of familiar characters: She's read every book in the Inspector Gamache mystery series.
- whodunitCrime fiction identifying perpetrator
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- amateur sleuthNonprofessional crime investigator
- TV showsTelevised episodic programs
- investigationFormal examination of facts
crime scene · dead body · locked room · clue · red herring · unreliable narrator · Raymond Chandler · Nancy Drew · novels · page turner · Edgar Allan Poe · Miss Marple · Agatha Christie · motive · Arthur Conan Doyle · podcasts · graphic novels · noir
- dramaTV drama, acting, television drama, drama school, playwright
- book seriestrilogy, duology, tetralogy, pentalogy, saga
- serialsserial, serials, periodicals, magazines, journals
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- televisionTV, television, broadcast, TV shows, network television
- crime fictiondetective fiction, detective novels, detective novel, detective, detective stories
mystery seriesanthology
Collected literary works volume
one-shot · short story · short story collection · limited series
mystery seriesnonfiction
Literature about real events
journalism · reportage · documentary series · true crime · true crime series