| ATOMBWITHACLUE | Forster novel about the mysterious death of Tutenkhamen? |
| TWIN | Cult TV series about the mysterious death of Laura Palmer, ___ Peaks |
| HOWARDSEND | EM Forster novel about the Basts, Schlegels and Wilcoxes |
| PHARAOH | Tutenkhamen |
| AROOMWITHAVIEW | E. M. Forster novel about Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman in Edwardian England (1,4,4,1,4) |
| HATED | Absolutely disliked and loathed... and a mysterious death (5) |
| INHABITED | Mysterious death in book keeps one occupied (9) |
| VERYLITTLE | How much is known about the mysterious miniature? |
| METHS | Manuscript about the mysterious spirits (5) |
| BERMUDA | The three points of the notorious triangle 'responsible' for the mysterious disappearance of shipping and aircraft in the Caribbean are the US, Puerto Rico and this island nation |
| JONATHANFRANZEN | Author of a 2001 novel about the Lambert family and a 2010 novel about the Berglund family |
| CHOIRBOYS | The ___, title of a 1975 Jospeh Wamburgh novel about the exploits of a group of LA police officers |
| POIROT | Fictional Belgian detective in "Queen of Crime" Agatha Christie's stories including The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (6) |
| NEMO | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in the Jules Verne novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875) (4) |
| ALBUM | Joan Didion's autobiographical novel about the political and social turmoil of the 1960s, The White |
| EDEN | East of ---, 1952 Steinbeck novel about the Trasks and the Hamiltons (4) |
| INITIAL | Endorse first Latin novel about the start of the Interregnum (7) |
| DONNYBROOK | Fellow with New York novel about the start of the rooster fight (10) |
| BLOTTONTHELANDSCAPE | 1975 Tom Sharpe novel about the construction of the M101 motorway |
| STYLES | Essex country manor in the title of a 1920 Agatha Christie novel, The Mysterious Affair at ___ (6) |
