English: Mystery Vocab Worksheet

An excuse that an accused person uses to show that he or she was not at the scene of the crime
An advance or discovery that helps solve a crime
A fact or object that helps to solve mysteries
an act committed in violation of the law
to infer by logical reasoning
a person who investigates crimes and gathers information
something, such as a witness statement or object that is used as proof in a crime
a guess or feeling not based on known facts
an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way
something that is secret and unknown
the arrangement of incidents in a story
to steal or filch
something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue
the time, place, environment, and surrounding circumstances of a stoy
another name for a detective
a person who is suspended of a crime
someone who is harmed or suffers some loss
someone who saw or can give a firsthand account of something
when the reader does not know the solution while he or she is reading the mystery
things that lead an investigator off the path, including clues that do not add up to a solution but make the search longer
The way the story is set up.