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History of Mystery
Vocabulary
100
Inspired Edgar Allan Poe to begin writing mystery.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
An investigator looking for and gathering clues.
What is a detective?
200
Erle Stanley Gardner published his stories in a popular pulp magazine specializing in crime fiction called _____________.
What is Black Mask?
200
A thing or statement that helps to prove who committed the crime.
What is evidence?
300
From 1891 to 1893, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, all avidly followed by the public. Holmes and his longtime nemesis, Professor Moriarty, are killed off in a book called ____________.
What is "The Final Problem"?
300
A discovery that helps solve the crime.
What is a breakthrough?
400
In 1926, her husband asked for a divorce, having fallen in love with another woman. She later found happiness with her marriage in 1930 to Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she met on a trip to Mesopotamia.
Who is Agatha Christie?
400
A guess or feeling not based on facts.
What is a hunch?
500
Five major authors who wrote novels in a popular teen series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Who are: (accepted) Edward Stratemeyer, Edna Stratemeyer, Harriet Stratemeyer, Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
500
To infer by logical reasoning.
What does it mean to deduce?