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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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    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...
  2. T

    Mystery luke warm water from bath

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  3. M

    This week's plumbing mystery

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    • Forum: USA
  4. M

    Mystery water hammer

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    • Forum: Ireland
  5. Cat

    Water pressure mystery

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    • Forum: USA
  6. A

    Impossible to fit toilet seat!

    For the life of me I can’t work out how to fit our toilet seat. The builders obviously couldn’t either and used silicon that has now come loose. All I can imagine is it needs a nut fitting with a barb that expands after the bolt is pushed into the base but I’ve never heard of such a thing. It’s...
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    Grohe kitchen tap head removal mystery

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  8. D

    toilet flushing/venting mystery

    I have a simple toilet, lav, shower bathroom. Lav and shower drain fine. Toilet does not. Each time - It flushes fine, but water either doesn't drain, or drains very slowly. (see video). Plunger doesn't do much. Have had plumber out to clear line 3 times in about a week. Last guy...
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    • Forum: USA
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    Mystery drain cover query

    I have a strange drain cover that looks like a spout in my front garden. See pics. I've always thought it looks like something from the tellytubbies. Its a couple of feet from the main manhole at the entrance to my property. I don't know what it's for but I assume it's some kind of vent. I...
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  10. P

    Mystery Sewer Smell in House after Extension

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  11. M

    Hot Water Mystery

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  12. M

    Help with mystery seal

    Hello everyone, A few weeks ago I knocked over a 110mm stand pipe for the septic tank in the garden, breaking the seal adaptor. I'm really struggling to work out where to get a replacement from, please help! I've been round a few merchants and googled all the text on the thing in various...
  13. D

    Backfiling Mystery - Mixer Shower Likely Culprit

    I had a leaking overflow pipe a few weeks ago and not only was the water running from my overflow pipe but the actual pipe (from the large tank in the loft) to outside needed replacing as it had several holes in it. I was rudely awoken in the night as water started seeping through my ceiling...
  14. V

    Mystery...! Pressure Problem - Central Heating

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  15. D

    Burst pipe under screed mystery

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  16. A

    Mystery of the leaking toilet

    Had a new en suite fitted in March last year... The toilet leaked - not all the time just at night we would wake up to a wet floor, we swapped the toilet... same thing. We then swapped all connectors on the toilet and swapped the toilet for a different manufacturer and we are still getting leaks...
  17. O

    mystery gully / drain

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  18. T

    Mystery green marks on bathroom floor

    Hello to all forum members! Hope that you could share some of your experience and help me solve a little mystery. Perhaps, the title gave you some hints already, but here's what I have found on my bathroom floor after going away for a week: So I had a look underneath and here's what I could...
  19. D

    Mystery pressure loss on WB 24i

    Hey folks, got a weird one here. CH system has been isolated and is not dropping ( gas test, acoustics, gauge on radiator ) Its a brand new worcester bosch 24i and is fitted with a snorkel/vertical extension outside, this is spurting and abnormal amount of water when the boiler runs, the...
  20. J

    Boulter Oil Fired Boiler Mystery...

    Hi, Would very much appreciate some expert advice with this - I'm rapidly approaching my wits end. I have an old Boulter oil fired boiler, commisioned in '96. It's been fine other than 2yrs ago it started to only fire intermittently, so I stripped it and cleaned it - all good. It's recently...
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