Meaning

2 senses
  1. A subgenre of crime fiction in which characters must investigate and solve a murder.

  2. A game in which one or more players are tasked with killing off all other players, who in turn must identify the murderers and vote them out or otherwise remove them from the game.

More definitions
  • a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The murder remains a mystery.

    ruУбийство остается загадкой. — glavkos

    deDer Mord bleibt rätselhaft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom asked Mary if she enjoyed reading murder mysteries.

    deTom fragte Mary, ob sie gern Krimis lese. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I enjoy reading murder mysteries.

  4. The murder remained a mystery for 24 years.

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  5. The family likes to watch murder mysteries.

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Forms

plural: murder mysteries
Singularmurder mystery
Pluralmurder mysteries

regular

See also

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