Complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a crime.
Two whodunits in one night-thenew standard by which a Baltimore detective can be judged.
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Like in old whodunits: the lady never says she's being blackmailed or having an affair; it's always 'my friend.'
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I rarely guess who done it when I read whodunits, even though I spend a great deal of time plotting my own.
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By this unspoken agreement, those unseemly arguments in which one detective accuses another of grabbing dunkers and dumping whodunits are kept to a minimum.