Mystery

Mystery

Drawings are painted to protect inhabitants from spirits

A Mystery is an ages-old popular genre of tales dealing with the unknown. A Mystery may be a narrative of horror and terror, a pseudoscientific fantasy, a crime-solving story, an account of diplomatic intrigue, an affair of codes and symbols and secret societies or any situation involving a puzzle. By and large, mystery stories may be divided into two sorts: tales of the supernatural and riddle stories. [RA] {EB}
Mystery is a form of writing involving an event in which the details remain so secret or obscure as to excite curiosity. For example, any books by Agatha Christie or any Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [AM] {CL}