Camus included a dim-witted character misreading The Trial as a mystery novel as an oblique homage.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

The Archduke plays a significant role both in Elizabeth George's mystery A Traitor to Memory ( 2001 ); and in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore ( 2002 ).

At least one published mystery novel uses aspects of the myth as the centerpoint of the plot.

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.

The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as " the first feminist mystery novel.

* Phoebe Daring, a mystery novel for juvenile readers

In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.

Lawhead has contributed to one fictional compilation, writing a chapter in the serial mystery novel Carnage at Christhaven ( 1989-ed.

* Uncle Silas ( 1864 ), a macabre mystery novel and classic of gothic horror.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

A mystery novel admired by Dashiell Hammett.

* November 6 – Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None is published in book form in the United States.

In the mystery novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers and its series adaptation by BBC Television, Lord Peter Wimsey solves the case by reference to Manon Lescaut.

It became a catch phrase, often used humorously for Yankees visiting the South, as in the mystery novel, Death of a Damn Yankee: A Laura Fleming Mystery ( 2001 ) by Toni Kelner.

* Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino ( 2000 ) is set partly at Frederick's court, and also deals with the mystery of Frederick's death.

General Tilney ( Henry and Eleanor's father ) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.

It featured prominently in the Marcus Didius Falco mystery novel Last Act in Palmyra.

It is a dark fantasy / suspense / murder mystery novel set in the author's beloved New Orleans French Quarter.

His detective novel, Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery.

The novel is remarkable not only for the absence of " e ," but it is a mystery in which the absence of that letter is a central theme.

The title of Earle Stanley Gardner's mystery novel Shills Can't Cash Chips is derived from this type of shill.

The OPA is featured, in fictionalized form as the Bureau of Price Regulation, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery novel The Silent Speaker.

Dashiell Hammett resolved this contradiction by ceasing to write mystery stories and turning to other pursuits.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

* 1932 Roads of Memory ( dramatised by W E Fuller ; it is unclear what work this " sophisticated mystery " was based on )

While Poirot is usually paid handsomely by clients who request his help, he is known to also take on cases that may not pay well simply because the mystery interests him.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

The feud and Fisher's suicide were used as the basis for a lurid, highly fictionalized murder mystery, Strip for Murder by Max Allan Collins.

Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Although the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history.

* The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

Getting no satisfactory answer to the phenomenon, curious scientists at the facility decided that they would try to solve the mystery by attempting to catch these airborne creatures.

Stoker also indulges the air of mystery further than Le Fanu by allowing the characters to solve the enigma of the vampire along with the reader.

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

According to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, they initiated the French into a new way of laughing, and introduced people to the mystery and purport of colour by ideas.

According to Taylor, by the early 19th century this deism-mediated exclusive humanism developed as an alternative to Christian faith in a personal God and an order of miracles and mystery.

A study of German dominatrices by Andrew Wilson has noted the trend for dominatrices choosing names aimed at creating and maintaining an atmosphere in which class, femininity and mystery are key elements of their self-constructed identity.

as a mystery guest, and showed his comedic side by donning a rubber mask.

Also intelligent, she once attempted to prove herself smarter than Encyclopedia by stumping him with a mystery of her own creation.