To be fair, A Study in Scarlet is hardly the best Holmes mystery.

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Love may not be blind, but it does work best with some mystery.

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Equally important is confidence, and the belief that investing is not some great mystery best left in the hands of the professionals.

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Author Walter Mosley is best-known for his Easy Rawlins mystery series about an amateur sleuth who solves murders in Los Angeles.

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Despite the bank's best efforts, economic growth remains a mystery: no one really knows why some countries sustain it over decades and others do not.

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Why Best Buy sells the Kindle is a mystery.

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Like all the best sports, the secret of success in baseball is a recurring mystery: no sooner does one team figure out how to win all the time, than another comes along to do better.

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The best coffee shops, be they colossal chains or quaint neighborhood hangouts, have solved the great mystery of personalization by using what little information they have about me to deliver my usual.

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Like all the best documentary filmmakers, she does her subjects the honor of allowing them to retain some of their mystery.

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Set six years after Pride and Prejudice ends, the book features Jane Austen's best-known characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and combines "classic period drama" with a suspenseful mystery plot.

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