whodunit
hooh duh nit
- n a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
- Rex Todhunter Stout, 88, premier American whodunit writer, whose corpulent orchidologist-detective, Nero Wolfe, with the help of his faithful legman Archie Goodwin, solved crimes .
- So whodunit? We'll get to that shortly.
- By week's end, the whodunit speculation had turned to Andrew Kissel himself.