If you ask my opinion, it's a shot in the dark really.
You might write something that appears absolutely obvious to you and then find out that nobody goes even close to it. And then you might write something that you believe is absolutely difficult only to see it solved in a few days.
If you really want to be sure your story will keep being entertaining try to make several levels of mystery, so even if something gets solved something else might not. This also gives you the liberty of creating various level of difficulty.
It is boring if you solve everything but it isn't fun if you don't solve anything. Make it so the mystery has various levels from easy to very hard so that it will be impossible to get the whole picture, but easy to get at least some of it.
That's my 2 cents.
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Originally Posted by Renall
I don't write mysteries, so I'm not too worried about it.
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Liar!
Well I at least remember I almost solved a one-shot mystery of yours at the first try.