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mystery fiction

genre of fiction where nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story
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mystery fiction

Summary

mystery fiction is a fiction genre[1]. It draws 222 Wikipedia views per month (fiction_genre category, ranking #28 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • mystery fiction's instance of is recorded as fiction genre[3].
  • mystery fiction's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85037260[4].
  • mystery fiction's subclass of is recorded as crime fiction[5].
  • mystery fiction's has part is recorded as detective and mystery fiction[6].
  • mystery fiction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02n4kr[7].
  • mystery fiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mystery fiction[8].
  • mystery fiction's main subject is recorded as mystery[9].
  • mystery fiction's partially coincident with is recorded as detective fiction[10].
  • mystery fiction's partially coincident with is recorded as gothic fiction[11].
  • mystery fiction's BBC Things ID is recorded as cf0aef78-953a-4878-a353-46dcac2b29dc[12].
  • mystery fiction's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00056659n[13].
  • mystery fiction's exact match is recorded as https://en.thetvdb.com/genres/mystery[14].
  • mystery fiction's exact match is recorded as https://www.fantasticfiction.com/genres/?gp=M[15].
  • mystery fiction's Quora topic ID is recorded as Mystery-Fiction[16].
  • mystery fiction's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as mystery-fiction[17].
  • mystery fiction's Lex ID is recorded as mysterium[18].
  • mystery fiction's KBpedia ID is recorded as PropositionalConceptualWork-MysteryGenre[19].
  • mystery fiction's X is recorded as 859532597684076545[20].
  • mystery fiction's GSSO ID is recorded as 008256[21].
  • mystery fiction's Personality Database profile ID is recorded as 56604[22].
  • mystery fiction's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as pes9nua5[23].
  • mystery fiction's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/2b5f8ea7-57ae-4858-a9ae-8d311cace235[24].

Why It Matters

mystery fiction draws 222 Wikipedia views per month (fiction_genre category, ranking #28 of 59).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Library of Congress Subject Headings. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . en.thetvdb.com. Retrieved . en.thetvdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved . fantasticfiction.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . personality-database.com. Retrieved . personality-database.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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