mystery story
C9222
concept
A mystery story is a narrative centered on solving a puzzling crime or unexplained event, typically following a protagonist who uncovers clues and confronts hidden truths.
All labels observed (43)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| crime novel | 394 |
| crime fiction work | 39 |
| Sherlock Holmes short story | 37 |
| detective fiction short story | 29 |
| historical mystery novel | 29 |
| detective fiction | 25 |
| psychological suspense novel | 17 |
| hardboiled detective novel | 10 |
| historical crime novel | 10 |
| mystery-comedy film | 9 |
| whodunit | 9 |
| crime fiction | 8 |
| detective story | 8 |
| Sherlock Holmes story | 7 |
| cozy mystery novel | 5 |
| mystery fiction work | 4 |
| mystery story canonical | 3 |
| American mystery film | 2 |
| Feluda story | 2 |
| historical mystery | 2 |
| locked-room mystery | 2 |
| medieval mystery novel | 2 |
| murder mystery | 2 |
| murder mystery novel | 2 |
| mystery short story | 2 |
| narrative mystery | 2 |
| Hercule Poirot story | 1 |
| Mystery novel | 1 |
| detective fiction subgenre | 1 |
| detective narrative | 1 |
| detective novella | 1 |
| fictional crime case | 1 |
| hardboiled detective fiction | 1 |
| lighthearted mystery novel | 1 |
| metaphysical detective story | 1 |
| murder mystery film | 1 |
| murder mystery play | 1 |
| mystery anime | 1 |
| mystery fiction | 1 |
| mystery fiction subgenre | 1 |
| mystery series | 1 |
| mystery-thriller novel | 1 |
| subgenre of crime fiction | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: mystery story
Generated description
A mystery story is a narrative centered on solving a puzzling crime or unexplained event, typically following a protagonist who uncovers clues and confronts hidden truths.
Instances (618)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| The Buenos Aires Affair | crime novel |
| End of Watch | detective fiction |
| The Outsider | crime novel |
| Billy Summers | crime novel |
| Terror Stalks the Class Reunion | crime fiction |
| The Christmas Thief | crime fiction work |
| All Dressed in White | crime novel |
| You Don’t Own Me | crime novel |
| Thieves Like Us | crime novel |
| The Sleeping Beauty Killer | crime novel |
| Take It Back | crime novel |
| Build My Gallows High | crime novel |
| The Violent Ones | crime novel |
| The Just Men of Cordova | crime novel |
| Again the Three | crime novel |
| The G-String Murders | crime novel |
| Mother Finds a Body | crime novel |
|
Ted Winters
surface form:
Weep No More, My Lady
|
Mystery novel |
|
Grumpy (play)
surface form:
Grumpy (1923 film)
|
mystery-comedy film |
| The Three Just Men | crime novel |
| A Question of Proof | crime fiction work |
| The Beast Must Die | crime novel |
| Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo | mystery-comedy film |
|
Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole"
surface form:
Fire in the Hole
|
crime fiction work |
| The Big Nowhere | crime novel |
| White Jazz | crime novel |
| American Tabloid | crime novel |
| The Cold Six Thousand | crime novel |
| Blood's a Rover | crime novel |
| Perfidia | crime novel |
| This Storm | historical crime novel |
| Clandestine | crime novel |
| Curtains | whodunit |
|
Samantha Kincaid series
surface form:
Judgment Calls
|
crime novel |
| The Ex | crime novel |
| The Wife | psychological suspense novel |
| If You Were Here | crime novel |
| Missing Justice | crime fiction work |
| Judgment Calls | crime novel |
| City of Lies | crime novel |
| Piece of My Heart | crime novel |
|
The Glass Key (novel)
surface form:
The Glass Key
|
crime novel |
| Intensity | psychological suspense novel |
| False Memory | psychological suspense novel |
| Laura (novel) | crime novel |
| Indian Killer | crime novel |
| Moon Over Soho | crime novel |
| Whispers Under Ground | crime novel |
| Death and the Compass | detective fiction |
| The Father Brown stories | detective fiction |