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Annotated Mystery Narratives Data Set Cover
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|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Information on the narratives in the data set.

TEXTAUTHOR# SENTENCES# WORDS
The adventures of the Italian noblemanaAgatha Christie3243839
The jewel robbery at the grand metropolitanaAgatha Christie5645101
The mystery of Hunter’s LodgeaAgatha Christie4084618
A case of identitybSir Arthur Conan Doyle4517028
A scandal in BohemiabSir Arthur Conan Doyle6868628
The red-headed leaguebSir Arthur Conan Doyle6329273
A question of passportscEmmuska Orczy2573767
Story of the young man in holy ordersdRobert Louis Stevenson2965623
The chronicles of Addington PeacedBertram Fletcher Robinson5426295
The mystery of the steel diskdBroughton Brandenburg4887356
Total464861,528
Table 2

Information on the tags assigned in the data set.

TAG SETTAGTAG SETTAG
PerspectiveActs
Focalization (2)Aftermath (9)
Voice (22) (homodiegetic/heterodiegetic)Confession (1)
SegmentConfrontation (4)
Ellipsis (0)Introduction (10)
Non-scene (Summary (26)/Description (3))Investigation (10)
Scene (Time, Place, Characters) (115)Reveal (10)
AnachronismsMisc
Analepsis (11)Clue (42)
Prolepsis (0)Detective thought (33)
Diegetic level
Extradiegetic (69)
Intradiegetic (124)
Metadiegetic (20)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.391 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 12, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 3, 2025
Published on: Dec 11, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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