Vocab
A distraction or clue intended to mislead or divert attention away from the true culprit…
What is a red herring?
This murder mystery occurs on a snow-stalled train.
What is Murder on the Orient Express?
In this book, we find the following quote: “Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.”
What is One of Us Is Lying?
The author is often referred to as “The Queen of Crime.”
Who is Agatha Christie?
This fictional detective is said to have been inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a doctor who could deduce his patients’ occupations and habits through observation and deduction.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, especially a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
What is an alibi?
In this novel, 17-year-old Pip uses a school project to investigate the murder of Andie Bell.
What is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?
Which detective says: “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
Who is Sherlock Holmes (in The Adventure of the Red Circle)?
He wrote The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
Who is Stuart Turton?
This 19th century author is said to have written the first modern detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Old-fashioned or humorous word for a detective.
What is a sleuth?
An Agatha Christie character who is often characterized as an elderly spinster.
Who is Miss Marple (or Jane Marple)?
This author said : “I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”
Who is Agatha Christie?
This author wrote One of Us Is Lying.
Who is Karen McManus?
Arthur Conan Doyle was friends with this famous magician at some point.
Who is Harry Houdini?
A one-word term for a murder mystery where the culprit is revealed at the end.
What is a whodunit?
Agatha Christie’s most famous detective character, a mustachioed Belgian man who solves crimes with his “little grey cells”.
Who is Hercule Poirot?
This famous Agatha Christie detective says: “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”
Who is Hercule Poirot?
This author wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
This character is the enemy of Sherlock Holmes, and was made as a device to kill off the detective.
Who is Professor James Moriarty?
The term for an “impossible crime” where the victim is murdered in a location where nobody should have been able to kill them.
What is a locked-room mystery?
Agatha Christie’s best-selling novel.
What is And Then There Were None?
This author, who wrote Where Are the Children?, said: “When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
Who is Mary Higgins Clark?
Agatha Christie sometimes used this pseudonym.
Who is Mary Westmacott?
This is Agatha Christie's iconic murder mystery play that premiered in 1952, which is also the longest-running show in the world.
What is The Mousetrap?