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Meanings of whodunnit in anglès
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.
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Examples for "whodunit"
Examples for "whodunit"
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Rick Townsend had joined the cast of characters in my little whodunit.
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In my nice, neat little murder whodunit, the who was Mr. Hill.
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Her skill lies in elegantly interweaving her themes into an old-fashioned whodunit.
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So we did a short demo, a whodunit called Scene of the Crime.
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A woman disappears: we think we know whodunit, but we're wrong.
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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.
Usage of whodunnit in anglès
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Like a whodunnit where the denouement is that it was natural causes.
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With one part of the mystery solved, Dee now must discover whodunnit.
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In Cold Blood is not a whodunnit but a why and wherefore.
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The great mysteries become props in a familiar, modern serial-killer whodunnit.
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Yet categorising Fortitude as a straight-up whodunnit might undersell the show.
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The stories tend to focus as much on their character as on the whodunnit.
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A whodunnit is never the same once we know whodunnit.
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The drama that follows, then, is not so much a whodunnit as a who-is-going-to-do-it.
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The show's as much a costume drama as a whodunnit.
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And that was one thing different about the new Belfast-set crime drama: it's not a whodunnit.
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There is, however, a mystery in this graph: an oddity, and the makings of a whodunnit.
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The historical whodunnit, and the claims of data theft, turn on the origin of those measurements.
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The Real Inspector Hound Tom Stoppard's farcical whodunnit.
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It was pure whodunnit, a contest of intelligence and nerve between the detective and the killer.
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Think of science kind of like a whodunnit only the answer to the question is the Universe.
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Meanwhile, in another world … David Hytner Introduce no-fly zones over stadiums to prevent whodunnit banner warfare.
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