Usually means: Crime story solving a killing.
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  1. murder mystery: Collins English Dictionary
  2. murder mystery: Vocabulary.com
  3. Murder-mystery, murder-mystery: Wordnik
  4. murder mystery: Dictionary.com
  5. Murder Mystery (band), Murder Mystery (film), Murder Mystery, Murder-mystery, Murder mystery (disambiguation), Murder mystery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. murder mystery: Rhymezone
  7. murder mystery: FreeDictionary.org
  8. murder mystery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. murder mystery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. murder mystery: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (murder mystery)

noun:  (fiction) A subgenre of crime fiction in which characters must investigate and solve a murder.
noun:  (games) A game in which one or more players are tasked with killing off all other players, who in turn must identify the murderers and vote them out or otherwise remove them from the game.

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