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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Have you ever read a crime book where the crime wasn't mysterious in some way?
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Yes. The "Inverted Detective Story" (aka the "Columbo"-type story), where the reader has complete knowledge of the crime from the start. Invented by R. Austin Freeman. The crime in such a book is a mystery to the detective, but not to the reader.
You're absolutely right in saying that the overwhelming majority of crime novels involve a mystery, but the inverse isn't true; there are numerous books which involve a mystery which is not a crime.