whodunnit

/ huːˈdʌnɪt /

noun

1. informal,  a novel, play, etc, concerned with a crime, usually murder

Example Sentences

Never in recent memory has an Australian criminal case been so high-profile: a small-town murder mystery with a weapon so outlandish it wouldn't seem out of place in an Agatha Christie novel - not so much a whodunnit as a whydunnit.

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In a two-star review, the Telegraph's Robbie Collin called it a "nefariously lazy" adaptation that is little more than a "half-hearted parody of a whodunnit".

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Many dead ends and a visit to the crime scene later, the women finally figured out whodunnit.

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Apart from one 1980s role in a BBC Play for Today as a "rural police sergeant who had to do all the work", Spall, star of Mr Turner, Harry Potter and the iconic Barry in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, has never been in a "whodunnit", and admits to not having watched much in that vein.

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For example, there was a "whodunnit" about significant selling of US Government debt just after the original tariff reveal.

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