whodunit

Example Sentences

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Another set of noteworthy entries from 2025 engage with classic whodunit scenarios.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Secret Service is among the agencies deployed to investigate the escalator whodunit.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

While intended to capture the sun-soaked sleaze of a B-movie noir, “Honey Don’t!” is a perplexingly plotted whodunit that delivers the “who” but none of the “why.”

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

Throw the audience off with a whole lot of silliness and nonsense, and there’s a good chance they’ll forget that a whodunit like this should be building intrigue as it goes.

From Salon • May 3, 2025

In these examples, look at the phrase containing the mg word and look at whodunit.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner