whodunit

Example Sentences

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But “Wake Up Dead Man” is a funny gothic whodunit in which the twist is an ending that squeezes out a tear.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 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

Its Waitrose supermarkets has a whodunit two-parter which leaves audiences on a cliffhanger, starring Succession's Matthew Macfadyen as a detective on the hunt to uncover who has stolen the family's red velvet cake.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024

But whenever you’re reading a whodunit, or watching Law and Order reruns on a Sunday night, you find yourself sorting through candidates to be the criminal on the grounds that they are “too obvious.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith