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Mystery
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved
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Abandoned: MIA in Vietnam
by Bill Yancey (Goodreads Author)
by Bill Yancey (Goodreads Author)
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Whispers in the Mist
by Lisa Alber (Goodreads Author)
by Lisa Alber (Goodreads Author)
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There's a whisper in the mists
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Blind Spot (John Handful #1)
by Andrew Hixson (Goodreads Author)
by Andrew Hixson (Goodreads Author)
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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
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― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
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― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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