Story Elements
Famous Detectives
Books/Short Stories
TV Shows/Movies
Unsolved Mysteries
100
Setting
What is Where the story takes place?
100
Detective that travels with his friends in the Mystery Machine solving mysteries.
Who is Scooby Doo?
100
These teens sometimes work together to solve mysteries but they have their own book and graphic novel series.
Who are the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew?
100
Longest running crime TV show series on NBC.
What is Law & Order?
100
A mysterious place where people and objects are said to just disappear.
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
200
Character
Who are the people in the story?
200
Brothers that work together solving mysteries.
Who are the Hardy Boys?
200

In this short story, detectives unknowingly eat the murder weapon.

What is "Lamb to Slaughter"?

200
Crime TV series with shows set in Las Vegas, Miami, and New York.
What is CSI?
200
Serial killer in London, England in 1888.
Who was called Jack the Ripper?
300
Clue
What are the hints given to help people solve the mystery?
300
America's "oldest" teen girl detective.
Who is Nancy Drew?
300

The first Sherlock Holmes mystery.

What is A Study in Scarlet (accept A Study in Pink)?

300
TV show set in a tropical paradise originally on TV from 1968-1980 redone for modern TV.
What is Hawaii 5-0?
300
Serial killer who taunted the police in California in 1968-1969.
Who was called the Zodiac Killer?
400
Alibi
What is a suspects's reason they could not have committed the crime?
400
Works with Watson at 221B Baker Street.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
400

The character responsible for Eva Smith's death in An Inspector Calls.

Who are all of the characters (except the maid)?

400
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
What does NCIS (from the title of the TV show) actually stand for?
400

Young victim murdered on December 25, 1996.

Who is JonBenet Ramsey?

500
Red herring
What are the distractions to keep the person from solving the mystery?
500
Dashell Hammett's famous detective from the book the Maltese Falcon.
Who is Sam Spade?
500

The killer in Murder in the Rue Morgue.

What is the orangutan?

500

Works as a Pet Detective.

Who is Ace Ventura?

500

Jumped out of a hijacked plane after stealing $200,000.

Who is DB Cooper?

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