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.
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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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.