mystery

Not only did Crimewatch help put a name to the mystery body, it prompted someone to come forward and confess to being involved in Karen's murder.

Published in 1958, this slender novel was an instant bestseller and is credited with launching the mystery genre in Japan.

The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.

His memoir, “Life, Law & Liberty,” sheds light on his own experiences on and off the court but leaves its central figure’s jurisprudence still mainly a mystery.

Another explorer, Martin Nweeia, a dental surgeon, discovered that a narwhal’s tusk, whose purpose was a mystery to scientists, is actually a sensory rod that helps it measure salinity, temperature and water pressure.