Story Elements
Famous Detectives
Books
TV Shows
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

This Author based many of his historic mysteries in Rhode Island.

Who is Avi?

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 book in Blue Balliet's Calder mystery series.
What is Chasing Vermeer?
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
Author Donald Sobol's famous boy detective.
Who is Encyclopedia Brown?
400
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
What does NCIS (from the title of the TV show) actually stand for?
400

A movie and book about an unsolved Hollywood actress murder from 1947.

What is Black Dahlia?

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
Science fiction writer who is now a golden age mystery writer with titles like Dead Men Kill and Devil's Rescue.
Who is L. Ron Hubbard?
500
The only all crime television network.
What is the Crime and Investigation Network ( ci network)?
500

Croatoan

What is the message left on a tree by the Roanoke lost colony of settlers in the late 1500s?

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