whodunit

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00:54 Oct 12, 2020
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Additional field(s): Cinema, Film, TV, Drama, Poetry & Literature, Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: whodunit
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

Example sentence(s):
  • 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
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5detektívka
Lívia Laczová


  

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detektívka


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Detektívka je napínavý príbeh o vyšetrovaní vraždy.

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  • Hľadáte nejaký tip na zaujímavú detektívku? Tu je náš výber naozaj slušných filmov, ktoré vo svete dostali názov “whodunit" movies. - Online Magazín  

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Lívia Laczová
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Local time: 01:45
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