Sentence examples for of a whodunit from inspiring English sources

Cansiz's murder is something of a whodunit.

All my researches have the structure of a whodunit".

For a text with the potential of a whodunit, this clothesline of projects is frustrating.

The tension isn't that of a whodunit – it grows from wondering how will these people fall.

As it prepares for its midsummer All-Star Game on Tuesday night, baseball has its own version of a whodunit.

But if "Iphigenia in Forest Hills" doesn't deliver the ordinary pleasures of a whodunit, its appeal lies in Malcolm's sidelong observations about journalism and the judicial process.

We have the makings of both a whodunit and a why-do-it.

Kelly's novel is a coming-of-age meets a whodunit — or maybe a whydunit, since the who is evident fairly early.

Go on the right day and you may meet some of these anonymous folks: volunteers in costume portray mansion inhabitants (and are part of a "Holiday Whodunit" historical mystery for children).

And the story has many of the classic features of a mystery: It's a whodunit that combines the pleasures of a police and courtroom procedural.

Mr. Pears, a specialist in ancient crime whose latest book, "An Instance of the Fingerpost," is a whodunit set in a conspiracy-laden England after the death of Oliver Cromwell, had a theory about the smoke canister -- that it was timed to set the alarm off at midnight so that guards would assume a Y2K computer glitch was to blame.