Amatuer Detective
Mystery Vocab
Sherlock Holmes
Poe
Riddles
100

The police being incompetent is an important rule to this genre of Mystery and Detective Fiction.

What is the amatuer detective?

100

A false lead that throws the investigator off track.

 What is a Red Herring? 

100
The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. 

Who is Sir A.C. Doyle?

Arthur Conan Doyle

100

The First Mystery & Detective Fiction published story.

What is Murders in the Rue Morgue?

100

This has to be broken before you can use it.

What is an egg?

200

The amateur detective has these things to follow.

What are the 5 rules of an amateur detective?

200

An investigator or detective.

What is a Sleuth?

200

The Arthur of Sherlock Holmes also took up the hobby of examining patients; taking medical histories; prescribing medications; and ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic tests. 

What is a physician? 

200

Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genus Pongo.

What is an orangutan? 

200

This month of the year has 28 days.

What is every month?

300

This rule mentions that there must be a crime preferably murder because there are an infinite number of ways in which someone can die.

What is Rule #1?

300

To steal or filch.

Purloin

300

The first Sherlock Holmes Story.

What is A Study in Scarlet?

300
The legendary man who solved the case of the Murders of the Rue Morgue.

Who is C. Auguste Dupin?

300

A question can you never answer yes to.

Are you asleep yet?

400

In this rule The reader must be given all the information or “clues” to be able to solve the crime if the “clues” are properly interpreted. 

What is Rule #4? 

400

A plea offered by an accused person of not having been at the scene of crime.

What is an alibi?

400

Sherlock Holmes was created on the year when the Interstate Commerce Act was passed.

What is 1887?

400

The date the writer of Murders in the Rue Morgue was born. 

What is 1809?

400

This is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every race.

What is Time?

500

Sherlock Holmes is an example of this rule.

What is there must be a detective, someone with superior powers of inductive and deductive reasoning, who is capable of solving the crime that baffles the official police system. OR What is rule #3?

500

Being one who deceives or tricks.

What is a charlatanerie?

500

The time Sherlock Holmes stopped production to the time it was reintroduced. 

What is 10 years? 

What is a Decade?

500

The magazine that published Murders in the Rue Morgue.

What is Graham's Magazine?

500

The next three letters in this combination: OTTFFSS.

What is ENT? 

Each represents the first letter of a number in a sequence beginning with "one." So what comes after six and seven? Eight, nine, and ten.