Mystery Tropes

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Tropes associated with Mystery Fiction and Detective Fiction.

Tropes:

• Absence of Evidence
• Anonymous Killer Narrator
• Anti-Climactic Unmasking
• Asshole Victim
• Basic Mystery Classes
• Beneath Suspicion
• Bluffing the Murderer
• The Butler Did It
• Cast as a Mask
• Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome
• Closed Circle
• Clueless Mystery
• Confess in Confidence
• Conviction by Contradiction
• Curtain Camouflage
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Death in the Clouds
• The Dog Was the Mastermind
• Dramatic Curtain Toss
• Driving Question
• Eagle-Eye Detection
• Eureka Moment
• Everyone Is a Suspect
  • Everybody Did It
• Evidence Scavenger Hunt
• Evil Plan
• Exposition Victim
• Fair Play Whodunnit
• Finger-Licking Poison
• Fingertip Drug Analysis
• The Game Never Stopped
• Hidden in Plain Sight
• Hidden Villain
• I Never Said It Was Poison
• Important Character, Important Evidence
• Intrepid Reporter
• Let Off by the Detective
• Lights Off, Somebody Dies
• Locked Room Mystery
• The Meddling Kids Are Useless
• Mistaken for Evidence
• Mystery Arc
• Mystery Magnet
• Mystery of the Week
• Needle in a Stack of Needles
• Never One Murder
• Never Suicide
• Notable Non Sequitur
• Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
• Old Dark House
• Ontological Mystery
• Orgy of Evidence
• Perfect Poison
• Placebo Eureka Moment
• Public Secret Message
• Red Herring
• Reverse Whodunnit
• Rewind, Replay, Repeat
• A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma
• Ripped from the Headlines
• Saying Too Much
• Serial Killings, Specific Target
• Shell Game
• Sherlock Scan
• Stranger Behind the Mask
• That Mysterious Thing
• The Stakeout
• The Summation
  • Summation Gathering
• Ten Little Murder Victims
• Thriller on the Express
• Twist Ending
• The Unsolved Mystery
• Weather Report Narration
• Wheel Program
• You Meddling Kids
• You Wake Up in a Room