Solve the Mystery

Mystery

• Something that is secret and unknown

• They name of Spongebob's seahorse

• Something you know the answer to

• The setting of a story

Clue

• A game

• A movie

• An attorney

• Evidence or hints that helps solve mysteries

Breakthrough

• an alibi

• The setting of a crime

• a discovery that helps solve a crime

• The plot

Detective/Sleuth

• A person who investigates crimes and gathers evidence.

• The person who commits a crime

• DNA evidence

• A Red Herring

Evidence

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

• A secret

• A private investigator 

• Sherlock Holmes's assistant

Red Herring

• What you're having for dinner

• The biggest fish in Lake Superior

• Blue Herring's cousin

• Something that is used to distract attention from the basic issue

Tags

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If Mrs. X is running from the law she is a

• Sleuth

• Fugitive

• Lead

• Red Herring

What is a clue?

• someone who sees a crime being committed

• a gut feeling or educated guess

• a piece of evidence that helps solve a problem

• an unsolved puzzle

What is evidence?

• another name for detective

• proof - items found in a crime scene that help solve the mystery

• someone who sees a crime being committed

• an unsolved puzzle

suspects

• characters who try to solve the mystery

• the reason a person does something

• characters who may have caused the problem

• the way the story is set up