Murder Mystery Word Search
A murder mystery word search sets the scene at the manor: the butler, the heiress and the maid, a dagger, a candlestick and a bottle of arsenic, a red herring to lead everyone the wrong way, and detectives from Poirot and Miss Marple to Sherlock Holmes.
The detective story as people know it starts with Edgar Allan Poe. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, from 1841, has a crime in a room locked from the inside and an amateur sleuth, C. Auguste Dupin, who solves it by reasoning, and later writers kept both ideas. Agatha Christie made the puzzle the whole point. Her play The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952 and ran without a break until theaters closed in 2020, and at the end of each show the audience is asked to keep the killer's name a secret.
Cluedo, called Clue in America, was invented by Anthony Pratt, an English musician, during the Second World War, and came out in 1949. Its six suspects include Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet and Professor Plum, and its weapons include the rope, the lead pipe and the wrench. A murder mystery party plays the same game with live people: each guest gets a character and a few secrets, one of them is the killer, and the night ends with an accusation over dinner.
Free Murder Mystery Word Search Online Game
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Murder Mystery Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Murder Mystery word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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Medium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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Easy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Murder Mystery has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Accomplice
- Accusation
- Arsenic
- Blackmail
- Butler
- Candlestick
- Christie
- Confession
- Conservatory
- Dagger
- Dinner Party
- Envelope
- Footprint
- Gumshoe
- Heiress
- Holmes
- Hunch
- Inspector
- Lead Pipe
- Library
- Locked Room
- Maid
- Manor
- Marple
- Mousetrap
- Mustard
- Orient Express
- Plum
- Poirot
- Poison
- Red Herring
- Rope
- Scarlet
- Sleuth
- Study
- Twist
- Victim
- Watson
- Whodunit
- Wrench