Oct 12, 2020 00:55
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English term

whodunit

GBK English to French Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.
Example sentences:
A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. (Alyssa Mackay)
Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? (Telegraph)
While Agatha Christie is still the first to spring to mind when thinking of the ultimate ‘whodunit’ books, detectives, murderers and victims have changed a lot since then; the breadth of crime, thrillers, detective and psychological novels out there, keeping us on tenterhooks until the last few pages, is vast. (WH Smith)
Proposed translations (French)
4 +4 polar
Change log

Sep 30, 2020 18:52: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

Oct 12, 2020 00:55: changed "Stage" from "Preparation" to "Submission"

Oct 15, 2020 01:56: changed "Stage" from "Submission" to "Completion"

Proposed translations

+4
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Selected

polar

Comme avec l'original en anglais, on reste dans le registre familier.
Definition from Larousse:
Terme familier pour un roman (ou film) policier
Example sentences:
Lire un polar (CNRTL)
Peer comment(s):

agree Hugues Marianne
9 mins
agree D. Eme Diptrans
2 days 3 hrs
agree Eliza Hall : Yes. The FR equivalent is best, even though it doesn't capture the meaning ("who done it" = who did it = figuring out who committed the crime). Unless your text is talking about what "whodunit" means, in which case you would need to translate the meaning.
2 days 5 hrs
agree katsy : I always thought it was 'whodunnit'! But perfect in my opinion. The idea is to know who committed the crime...
4 days
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