1. Mystery

2. About mysteries… Usually fiction stories
Author may leave clues to guide the reader to solve the mystery
Have components of realistic fiction but has different emphasis:
Everything revolves around a puzzle, or an unusual problem to solve

3. Ingredients for a mystery
Characters
All may be fictional
Some may be real, while others are fictional
They all behave in realistic ways

4. Ingredients for a mystery
Setting
Realistic

5. Ingredients for a mystery
Plot
Each major event is linked in steps that make sense
Usually includes one of the following:
A problem that needs to be solved
An event that cannot be explained
A secret
Something that is lost or missing
A crime that has been committed

6. Recipe for a mystery Beginning
Characters are introduced and the reader learns about the problem
Middle
Detectives work to solve the mystery by interviewing suspects and gathering clues
End
The Mystery is solved

7. Mystery vocabulary

8. Mystery Vocabulary Alibi
an excuse that a suspect uses to show that he or she was somewhere other than at the scene of the crime when the crime was committed
Clue
fact or object that helps solve mysteries, hints
Deduction
Coming to a conclusion by using reasoning

9. Mystery Vocabulary Evidence
something that helps prove who committed the crime
Motive
why a crime was committed
Red herring
a false lead that throws the investigator off track

10. Mystery Vocabulary Sleuth another name for a detective Suspect
A person who is believed to have possibly committed the crime
Witness
Someone who saw the crime being committed and can provide some information

11. Types of Conflict
External Conflict- struggle against an outside force; man vs. man/nature/society/technology
Internal Conflict- struggle within the character; man vs. self- who to trust, love, work ethic
Action of the plot is set into motion by a Central Conflict.

12. The End