PLA Mystery Vocabulary

alibi

• someone who saw or can give a firsthand account of something

• an excuse that an accused person uses to show that he/she was somewhere else than at the scene of the crime

• a person who investigates crimes and gathers information

• a guess or feeling not based on known facts

breakthrough

• something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue

• guess or feeling not based on known facts

• an advance or discovery that helps solve a crime

• a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries

clue

• a guess or feeling not based on known facts

• a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries

• something, such as a witness statement orobject that is used as proof in a crime

• something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue

crime

• a person who investigates crimes and gathers information

• to steal or filch

• an act committed in violation of the law

• a person who is suspected of a crime

deduce

• to infer by logical reasoning

• to steal or filch

• an excuse that an accused person uses to show that he/she was somewhere else than at the scene of the crime

• to completely guess something

detective

• something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue

• someone who is harmed or suffers some loss

• someone who saw or can give a firsthand account of something

• a person who investigates crimes and gathers information

evidence

• the time, place, environment and surrounding circumstances of a story

• to infer by logical reasoning

• something, such as a witness statement or object that is used as proof in a crime

• a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries

hunch

• a guess or feeling not based on known facts

• to infer by logical reasoning

• an excuse that an accused person uses to show that he/she was somewhere else than at the scene of the crime

• an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way

motive

• something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue

• an act committed in violation of the law

• an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way

• to steal or filch

mystery

• breakthrough

• an advance or discovery that helps solve a crime

• an act committed in violation of the law

• something that is secret and unknown