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whodunit

[hoo-duhn-it] / huˈdʌn ɪt /




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A whodunit is a bit like a basketball game: The last few minutes are all that really matter.

From The Wall Street Journal

The “Knives Out” whodunits are about classic filmmaking delights: smart scripts, sharp jokes and big stars.

From Los Angeles Times

Tom Nolan solves the mystery of what to give nearly any reader: new editions of classic whodunits and fresh cases to solve as well.

From The Wall Street Journal

Complicité’s decision to foreground these freewheeling digressions is to be commended: This is not a conventional whodunit but, rather, a kind of fable.

From New York Times

This hybrid whodunit/monster-hunter mashup is centered around one central unsolved mystery, and several ancillary riddles, in the Emerald Triangle, a swath of Northern California wilderness across Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties.

From Los Angeles Times