- "Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story."
A genre of fiction that involves a puzzle or crime to be solved, often a murder.
- "Often within a closed circle of suspects."
- "Each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime."
- "The central character is often a detective, who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader."
- "Some mystery books are non-fiction."
- "Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution."
- "Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism."
- "Mystery fiction can involve a supernatural mystery in which the solution does not have to be logical and even in which there is no crime involved."
- "Complicated to solve and weird stories: supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol."
- "That contrasted with parallel titles of the same names which contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction."
- "The first use of 'mystery' in that sense was by Dime Mystery."
- "Offered what were then described as complicated to solve and weird stories: supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol."
- "During the later part of 1933."
- "Dime Mystery started out as an ordinary crime fiction magazine..."
- "Thrilling Mystery and Spicy Mystery."
- "Switched to 'weird menace'..."
- "Supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol."
- "Conventional hardboiled crime fiction."
- "1930s and 1940s."
- "Titles such as Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery and Spicy Mystery offered what were then described as complicated to solve and weird stories: supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol."