The mystery plot is, on its own terms, tightly knit and free of gratuitous touches.

It's long for a novella, not long enough for a serious mystery plot.

Great analysis of the mystery plot, too!

As in any good mystery plot, all the characters are candidates for either victim or killer.

Consequently one doesn't care much about Clay or the mystery plot he gets mixed up in.

But the book's mystery plot hinges on whether they can really be taken at face value.

And a bookstore figures significantly in the well-constructed mystery plot.

The suspense is mild as the mystery plot drives the film forward and holds together the encounters of the various characters.

In the standard mystery plot, such all-around niceness would be a sure sign of guilt.

Their method of working is to create a victim and then fit the mystery plot around the dead body.