Mystery Tropes



Tropes associated with Mystery Fiction and Detective Fiction.

Related to:
 * Criminals
 * Detective Drama
 * Crime and Punishment Series
 * Crime and Punishment Tropes
 * Cops and Detectives
 * Murder Tropes
 * Mystery Fiction
 * Mystery Literature
 * Mystery Story Creator Index
 * Toxic Tropes

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