Mystery Trivia Questions

Calling all armchair detectives, mystery lovers, and trivia buffs!

Put your sleuthing skills to the test with these murder mystery trivia questions, featuring famous fictional detectives, classic whodunits, cozy mysteries, and puzzling crimes from books, movies, and TV.

Whether you’re planning a murder mystery trivia night, hosting a game with friends, or simply want to see how well you know your favorite fictional mysteries, these questions are packed with clues, suspects, twists, and plenty of opportunities to prove you could crack the case

• 1. Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote" resides in what coastal Maine town?

  Cabot Cove

• 2. What is John Watson’s profession in the Sherlock Holmes series?

  Doctor, retired army doctor

• 3. What is the name of the unique detective agency that Shawn Spencer and his best friend Gus run in Santa Barbara in a USA Network original series?

  Psych

• 4. Richard Osman writes a mystery series about a group of senior sleuths who began meeting on what day of the week?

  Thursday - Thursday Murder Club

• 5. What is the long-running British mystery series that follows more than one Inspector Barnaby solving murders in quaint towns in the English countryside?

  Midsomer Murders

• 6. Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe is credited as the first modern detective story. What was the name of the sleuth who solved the mystery in this story?

  C. Auguste Dupin

• 7. What is the name of Lt. Columbo’s dog

  Dog

• 8. What was the first mystery novel that Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot appeared in?

  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

• 9. What is the name of the main character in the Queen of Culinary Mysteries Joanne Fluke’s long-running book series that provided the inspiration for Hallmark’s Murder, She Baked?

  Hannah Swensen

• 10. What is widely credited as the first modern detective novel?

  The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

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How many did you solve?