whodunit
Example Sentences
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Harbour, Bateman and Cardellini spoke about how the series turns commonplace true crime themes of sex, love and murder into a smart, funny and empathetic whodunit.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
“Memory of a Killer” may turn out to be a whodunit in which the guy who’s done it doesn’t know he did it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
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
This year, she’s vying for lead actress in a comedy for her performance as an eccentric gumshoe on the Netflix whodunit “The Residence.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025
Aguirre-Sacasa has said that his drama first presents as a whodunit and evolves into a “whydunit.”
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
