MYSTERY STORY

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Meaning:

A story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie

Synonyms:

mystery; mystery story; whodunit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mystery story" is a kind of...):

story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mystery story"):

detective story (a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution)

murder mystery (a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered)