Definition!

mys·ter·y

n. pl. mys·ter·ies
1. One that is not fully understood or that baffles or eludes the understanding; an enigma: How he got in is a mystery.
2. One whose identity is unknown and who arouses curiosity: The woman in the photograph is a mystery.
3.A mysterious character or quality: a landscape with mystery and charm.
4. A work of fiction, a drama, or a film dealing with a puzzling crime.

(we are most likely refering to good ole number 4)

Some Books Classified as Mysteries.

Manchurian Candidate… Did you watch the new movie based on it with Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington? Here’s its mysteryguide.com review on it.
To Kill a Mockingbird is considered a suspense subgenre of mystery by this site.
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, I always wanted to read that book.
The Bone Collector… Considered a forensic mystery… like CSI Las Vegas, which I liked better than CSI Miami, no offense.
The Magician’s Tale considered to be a “hard-boiled” mystery

Here are some Super-duper sites to check out.

The first website that comes up when you type “mystery
Website contributed to types of mysteries, categorizing them, and reviewing the books.
Website for the Mystery writers of America. Purpose is to increase awareness, estemn and recognition for mystery writers, in short its not the greatest site for just browsing. It’s really boring..
ClueLass.com a page mostly on new arriving mystery novels, a guide to finding a specific mystery novel, and it also has a newsletter.
Lame website, but it provides a thousand other links on mystery novels and the genre overall. It also has an entire searchbase in which you can find a mystery writer and go directly to that writer’s website.
Good source for mystery book recommendations and reviews, and the website looks cooler too.
A plain website made by just one dude, but he seems to know what he was doing. And he wrote a lot about not only the history or mystery, but the school of fiction that their books can be classifed into, and etc.
Remember those mystery picture we used to do in elementary school because they were in Time for kids the magazine. It’s a whole site devoted to them! Isn’t that FUN!?
One more great link to mystery books and reviews and such. Actually this site is very VERY good. Its where I got all the reviews to the previous book links.

Lets go back and seach through more of this wonderful site!

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