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
It’s a classic whodunit story with Harper — who has plenty of secrets of her own — playing the role of the reluctant detective.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
It was a big whodunit mystery for a whole week.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
