whodunit
/huˈdʌnɪt/
noun
- A story, movie, or play about a crime, usually a murder, where the identity of the person who committed it is not revealed until the end.
- She wrote a whodunit set in a small English village.
- I love reading a good whodunit on a rainy weekend.
- The movie is a classic whodunit with many surprising twists.
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