Mystery Vocabulary

An excuse that shows someone was not at the scene of the crime

• setting

• detective

• alibi

• red herring

• motive

A sudden discovery that helps solve the crime

• motive

• breakthrough

• sleuth

• evidence

• incriminate

a fact, object, or observation that helps to solve mysteries.

• interrogate

• investigate

• evidence

• clue

• frame

Another word for detective

• sleuth

• motive

• incriminated

• mystery

• witness

A gut feeling

• accomplice

• setting

• alibi

• breakthrough

• hunch

A reason for doing something

• mystery

• suspect

• interrogated

• motive

• confess

Something that is unknown

• clue

• mystery

• evidence

• perpetrator

• suspect

A false clue or distraction that throws the audience off the right track

• motive

• framed

• red herring

• alibi

• victim

Person who is thought to have committed a crime

• suspect

• perpetrator

• investigator

• victim

• witness

A person who saw something or has information related to the mystery

• accomplice

• incriminated

• framed

• victim

• witness