mystery writer
Crafts puzzling plots
A mystery writer is an author who writes mystery fiction—novels or stories centered on crimes, usually murders, and their solutions.
The term covers everything from cozy mysteries to hard-boiled detective fiction.
Agatha Christie remains the best-selling mystery writer of all time.
- cluesHints toward answers
- plot twistsUnexpected narrative developments
- twist endingUnexpected narrative conclusion
- hidden identitiesConcealed true selves
- final chapterLast section of book
Agatha Christie · Dashiell Hammett · Arthur Conan Doyle · Edgar Allan Poe · Raymond Chandler · noir fiction · dark alley · Sherlock Holmes · private eye · Hercule Poirot · whodunit · unreliable narrators · Miss Marple · butler did it · thriller · page turner · detective fiction · amateur sleuth
- Genre AuthorsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke
- writersauthor, novelist, poet, journalist, essayist
- Novel Writingnovelist, storyteller, book author, plot, character
- writer typeschildren's author, graphic novelist, bestselling author
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes, Watson, Baker Street, Moriarty, Mrs. Hudson
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