Catalogued, not yet written138 patterns — a named gap, not a secret
Alternate History
Amateur Sleuth
Artificial Womb
Biological Computing
Biopunk
Body in the Past
Caper
Captain and Crew
Clone and Original
Cloning
Closed Circle
Cold Case
Conspiracy Widening
Contact Goes Wrong
Corporate Sovereignty
Cosy Mystery
Creator and Creation
Cyberpunk
Deep Time
Detective and Informant
Detective and Pathologist
Detective and Sidekick
Detective and Suspect
Detective as Suspect
Domestic Suspense
Dying Earth
Dystopia
Engineered Pandemic
Fair Play
False Confession
Far Future
Faster Than Light
First Landing
Forensic Mystery
Gene Editing
Geoengineering
Golden Age Puzzle
Handler and Asset
Hard SF
Hardboiled
Historical Mystery
Hopepunk
Howdunit
Human and AI
Impossible Crime
In Medias Res
Inverted Mystery
Investigator and Journalist
Legal Mystery
Literary Crime
Locked Room
Longevity Tech
Matter Replication
Memory Editing
Military SF
Missing Person
Multiverse
Mundane SF
Nanotech
Near Future
New Weird
Noir
Nordic Noir
Open and Shut
Orbital Habitat
Panspermia
Parallel Investigation
Parallel Lives
Physical Proof
Planetary Romance
Police Procedural
Post-Scarcity
Private Investigator
Professional and Amateur
Relativistic Travel
Resource Collapse
Rival Investigators
Science Fantasy
Scientist and Soldier
Second Victim
Serial Pattern
Solarpunk
Sole Survivor
Space Opera
Surveillance State
System Collapse
The Airlock
The Alibi Breaks
The Archive
The Body Discovery
The Confession
The Confrontation
The Countdown
The Cover-Up
The Crew Vote
The Damaged Detective
The Defection
The Descent
The Documentary Record
The Drawing-Room Reveal
The Expedition
The Experiment Escapes
The Expert Witness
The First Transmission
The First Word
The Frame-Up
The Interrogation
The Jump
The Last Transmission
The Last Two
The Long Game
The Outsider Detective
The Overlooked Detail
The Personhood Test
The Personhood Trial
The Proof
The Quarantine
The Reconstruction
The Red Herring
The Rescue Mission
The Reveal of Scale
The Search
The Second Body
The Shutdown
The Slow Reveal
The Slow Unfold
The Spacewalk
The Ticking Clock
The Uprising
The Witness Recants
True Crime Adjacent
Universal Translator
Utopia
Village Mystery
Von Neumann Probe
Whydunit
Wrong Man
Xenologist and Alien