During this period he published 18 plays and 3 novels, including the murder mystery The Red House Mystery ( 1922 ).

Mystery plays were sometimes performed in cathedrals, and cathedrals might also be used for fairs.

Mystery plays and miracle plays ( sometimes distinguished as two different forms, although the terms are often used interchangeably ) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

* Wakefield Mystery Plays-a collection of thirty-two mystery plays performed in medieval and early Renaissance England.

* York Mystery Plays-a collection of forty-eight mystery plays

* The York Mystery plays

* A simulator of the progress of the pageants in the York Mystery plays

* Záhada hlavolamu (" Mystery of the conundrum "), the mechanical puzzle Hedgehog in the Cage plays a central role in the book

* The Mysteries from medieval Mystery plays in a version by Tony Harrison, directed by Bill Bryden ( 1985 )

As one of what Secretary of War William Windham called " acquitted felons ", Holcroft's post-arrest reputation meant that his plays achieved little success after 1795, although he was instrumental in bringing melodrama to Britain at the end of the decade with his Deaf and Dumb ( 1801 ) and A Tale of Mystery ( 1802 ) ( an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l ' enfant du mystère ).

* Mystic Seaport plays a big role in the Hardy Boys Book # 47 Mystery of the Whale Tattoo.

In 1950, MacKaye published The Mystery of Hamlet King of Denmark, or What We Will, a series of four plays written as prequels to William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

* Mystery Playhouse presents The Detection Club ( January 1948 ); six 30 minute radio plays by club members on BBC Home Service written in aid of club funds

The plays, written by Jacques Van Melkebeke, included Tintin in India – the Mystery of the Blue Diamond and Mr Boullock's Disappearance.

* Mystery play-Medieval plays focused on the presentation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song.

The song ’ s coda plays over the end titles of the Beatles ’ 1967 Magical Mystery Tour film.

Sobran was the author of many books, including one about William Shakespeare, Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time ( 1997 ), wherein he espoused the Oxfordian theory that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon.

The song also plays out over the last scene of the 1999 movie Mystery Men.

Other adaptations include collections of short horror stories such as The Headless Horseman: And Other Ghoulish Tales, poems such as The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, and even plays such as The Mystery of the Headless Horseman.

Although he doesn't appear himself, Sebastian Moran plays a small part and is mentioned in the novel and Granada television series Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House written by Gerald Frow ( his non-canonical younger brother Jasper Moran does appear however ).

* In the 1999 film Mystery Men, Paul Reubens plays The Spleen.

The Chester Mystery Plays is a cycle of mystery plays dating back to at least the early part of the 15th century.