Mystery and Suspense Review

A fiction subgenre in which a crime is investigated and solved.

• realistic fiction

• historical fiction

• fable

• mystery

The person who gathers information or investigates the crime

• suspect

• witness

• detective

• likable protagonist

A specific fact or object that help the detective solve the mystery

• alibi

• red herring

• clue

• deduction

Someone who is harmed or suffers a loss because of the crime

• sleuth

• witness

• suspect

• victim

The person or people who are believed to have committed the crime

• victim(s)

• suspect(s)

• witness(es)

• detective(s)

A false lead that throws the investigator off track

• clue

• witness

• sleuth

• red herring

Someone who can provide information to help solve the crime

• sleuth

• perpetrator

• alibi

• witness

Another name for a detective

• perpetrator

• alibi

• sleuth

• witness

A possible conclusion given all the facts

• evidence

• mood

• deduction

• alibi

All of the clues and witness statements that helps prove who committed the crime

• evidence

• alibi

• red herring

• perpetrator