NOUN
- novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end
How To Use mystery novel In A Sentence
- She writes on topics ranging from travel to fitness, and also recently completed a mystery novel.
- When Walter was courting India, he spoke to her one night of Ruskin (she was impressed), but by middle age he reads only mystery novels, ‘as soporifics.’
- I will need to add more guideposts, though: right now I think I have too much of the mystery novel structure, which is never good.
- As mystery fans know, Elizabeth George is an American writer, who writes best-selling mystery novels set in England.
- John Maddox Roberts, author of the SPQR mystery novels set in ancient Rome, attempts a daring feat of alternate history. 2010 May « The BookBanter Blog
- Come back next week for part two of our two part interview with Eugenia Lovett West where she shares tips and techniques for mystery novelists and also about how important fearlessness is when writing a novel. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW:Eugenia Lovett West, part 1
- My mother is sitting at the table scribbling in a hardcover mystery novel. Times, Sunday Times
- My favorite dismissive comment by a publisher is the one that sunk Charlotte Perkins Gilman's only mystery novel, _Unpunished_ (written in 1929): Ah, Rejection
- And finally, what I really wanted to do hasn't happened at all: my mystery novel featuring the flighty Nettie Day.
- While fulfilling the page-turning requirements of the mystery novel, she also creates characters who have moral complexity and depth.