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Meanings of whodunnit in English

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whodunit

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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        Usage of whodunnit in English
        1
        Like a whodunnit where the denouement is that it was natural causes.
        The Guardian
        2
        With one part of the mystery solved, Dee now must discover whodunnit.
        Reuters
        3
        In Cold Blood is not a whodunnit but a why and wherefore.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The great mysteries become props in a familiar, modern serial-killer whodunnit.
        The Guardian
        5
        Yet categorising Fortitude as a straight-up whodunnit might undersell the show.
        The Guardian
        6
        The stories tend to focus as much on their character as on the whodunnit.
        The Guardian
        7
        A whodunnit is never the same once we know whodunnit.
        The Guardian
        8
        The drama that follows, then, is not so much a whodunnit as a who-is-going-to-do-it.
        The Guardian
        9
        The show's as much a costume drama as a whodunnit.
        Radio NZ
        10
        And that was one thing different about the new Belfast-set crime drama: it's not a whodunnit.
        The Irish Times
        11
        There is, however, a mystery in this graph: an oddity, and the makings of a whodunnit.
        Bad science
        12
        The historical whodunnit, and the claims of data theft, turn on the origin of those measurements.
        The Guardian
        13
        The Real Inspector Hound Tom Stoppard's farcical whodunnit.
        The Guardian
        14
        It was pure whodunnit, a contest of intelligence and nerve between the detective and the killer.
        The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
        15
        Think of science kind of like a whodunnit only the answer to the question is the Universe.
        Wired
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        Meanwhile, in another world … David Hytner Introduce no-fly zones over stadiums to prevent whodunnit banner warfare.
        The Guardian
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        quem matou?
        Spanish
        whodunit
        Catalan
        whodunit
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