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Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character is often a detective (such as Sherlock Holmes), who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism.
Mystery fiction can involve a supernatural mystery in which the solution does not have to be logical and even in which there is no crime involved. This usage was common in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, whose titles such as Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery and Spicy Mystery offered what were then described as complicated to solve and weird stories: supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol. That contrasted with parallel titles of the same names which contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction. The first use of "mystery" in that sense was by Dime Mystery, which started out as an ordinary crime fiction magazine but switched to "weird menace" during the later part of 1933.

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    Mystery fitting type?

    Does anyone know please what kind of fitting this is? I have hot cold wallmounted faucets for a bathroom basin. The original taps (pictured were not gripping and slipping around the pipe)I was told by a plumber that he couldn't find any similar taps with a fitting like this (some sort of...
  2. tappipe

    shower bath diverter access mystery

    I have a traditional style bath tap with shower attachment via a diverter. The lever no longer moves, and so I managed to unscrew the lever arm and the brass (colonial) piece, exposing the plastic diverter valve. Unfortunately, I am stumped as to how to get access to the diverter valve, as the...
  3. d36csr

    Mysterious Toilet Blockage

    Hi there, I have a commercial customer who asked me a few months ago to investigate a toilet that kept blocking. They'd just had the blockage professionally pressure washed out, but wanted me to see what I could do to avoid it happening again. On inspection, I found that the soil pipe leading...
  4. C

    Hot water service in home

    Please forgive the length of this post, but I must provide all the information to fully explain the issue. I am completely perplexed! My 43 year oldhome is in the country, on a well. Recently, I had a 20+ year old 40 gallon propane hot water heater professionally replaced. The house service line...
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    Combi boiler mystery issue

    Hello all, New here so please forgive my ignorance. I have a Main 24 HE combi boiler and it’s playing silly bugg*rs. When given power it runs constantly, providing both heating and DHW. We have to turn it off at the selector switch when we don’t want heating/hot water otherwise it just burns...
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    Mystery boiler problem!

    Hi, Have had a fault on our Ideal Icos HE15 boiler for a couple of weeks, keeps failing to light and shows LF (or FL) error. Boiler engineer came out today and checked boiler, no issues found. Then checked the gas supply, it seems when boiler demand came on the pressure at the meter dropped...
  7. D

    Extreme Plumbing Mystery

    Building Description A new (23 years old) 1 story small block of 7 flats. water enters the building and distributed to each flat from a communal cupboard on the ground floor. From here the water to my flat can be turned off via a stopcock(1) at this location. Water enters my flat which is...
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    What is this mystery pipe?

    I am renovating an old mining terrace in the Welsh valleys (uk) and I have come across a mystery, I have my mains water supply to my property and a stopcock near the front door that cuts off all water to the property. However I also have blue pipe coming from the floor in my kitchen, also with a...
  9. S

    Mystery Radiator valve

    Hi, Hoping someone can help me identify what type of radiator value this is? I hope to replace with a TSV
  10. B

    Mixer tap mystery - water flow problems

    The previous mixer tap developed a leak. I ordered an exact replacement. The hot &cold tails were too short so I had to replumb the water connections. The new tap exhibited strange symptoms:- In the fully open hot position no water flows. The only way to get the hot to flow is to reduce the...
  11. D

    Mystery pipe at the back of the toilet trap

    Mystery pipe at the back of the toilet trap Hi, we have moved into a house with a nice but old toilet, double trap I think, maybe syphonic? It fills up to the top before draining. I was going down the route of it having the wrong syphon fitted but noticed this pipe that has had a stopper put on...
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    The HWC Mystery - only reaches 50c despite a tested thermostat...

    Background - One morning about two weeks ago I found we had hot water in the cold water tank, so I ran off the cold (now hot) water and let the cold tank refill to try and diagnose the reason. But the cold tank has stayed cold ever since after that with nothing coming back from the hot cylinder...
  13. L

    Bathroom sink very slow drain mystery

    The bathroom was refitted 10 years ago. Everything was fine until a couple of years ago. The basin is very slow draining and you can see the water coming up from the P trap and then filling up the basin. I've tried drain unblockers etc. and also put a hose with a snug fitting nozzle into the...
  14. B

    mystery leak

    my kitchen was flooded with water coming through ceiling.the obvious source would be the bathroom which is abpve the kitchen but could not find any leak even when water supply turned back on .
  15. A

    Mystery open kitchen drain behind wall - need advice about plugging it

    My kitchen sink drain became blocked and, while unblocking it with a plunger and lots of water, I saw the dirty water leak from behind drywall about 6 feet away from sink. I had previously noticed a smell from the same area and dampness on the drywall. So I cut open the drywall and find an open...
  16. M

    Mystery pipe dripping into laundry tub

    My washing machine and laundry tub are in the basement. The cold water supply comes down from the joists. About halfway down there is a weird T joint which runs an extra pipe into the laundry tub. The extra pipe is open and seems to have some kind of weird shut off valve but drips constantly...
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    Mystery pipes - can anyone work out what they are for?

    My son has just moved into a ground floor flat in a five-storey mansion block in London, built in about 1905. The bathroom is being renovated and he has found two old pipes, one around 4 inches (I think) in diameter, the other a bit smaller, that are a mystery. They come down from the floor...
  18. D

    Outside tap mystery

    Hi all, I'm completely confused by my outside tap. If I open it quarter of a turn, I get high pressure (as expected) but also high flow (I can fill a saucepan in about 5 seconds). If I continue to turn the tap, the flow suddenly slows to the point it takes about 25 seconds to fill the same...
  19. H

    Bathroom leak mystery

    Hello. I live in 1400 sq ft townhouse with a downstairs powder room. There's a leak but plumber can't figure out where leak orginates. Here's what I know: 1. The leak only happens when the water shutoff valves are off. 2. Running water through the sink doesn't cause water leak or...
  20. T

    Mystery luke warm water from bath

    Morning everyone, Hope someone can help with an issue ive had 3 times now on seperate occasions. Changed some bath taps in 2 different properties, one had the telephone style bath/shower deck mixer installed, boiler was a worcs greenstar 30i combi. Changed for an ideal deck bath deck taps...
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