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1 A maelstrom of life-shattering events in a Brooklyn parochial school pulls the characters downward through 90 ­intermission-less minutes with the swiftness of a good whodunit.

2 What interests me is a clean slate every time, and to surprise audiences with a new whodunit.

3 So far this season “Masterpiece Mystery!” has offered up Agatha Christie whodunits: three new episodes featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and on Sunday a new adventure for the gentle knitter Miss Marple.

4 It’s also a nod to classic whodunits that channels Christie’s talent for writing unsolvable mysteries packed with puzzles, red herrings and, most especially, unreliable narrators.

5 Besides its slow, thoroughly satisfying build as a whodunit, the series ably handles a thematic tension between vile darkness and moral courage.

6 I'd like to have a whodunit?

我想要一本侦探小说.

7 Even so, when the novel draws to a close, it seems less important whodunit and why.

8 There’s a lot of humor, very funny characters, and there’s a little bit of a mystery and a little bit of a whodunit.

9 So his central presence in “The Limehouse Golem,” a baroque Victorian whodunit set in London’s East End, is like a wink-wink signal that what we’re seeing is being played for laughs, not scares.

10 Maybe that is where "Serial" is helping by acknowledging and exposing the injustice and doing this beyond a type of whodunit or true-crime mystery narrative.

11 “The original novel,” he says, “had this great whodunit element that really propels the plot. It’s really a fun murder mystery.”

12 The Kyoto University Mystery Club was founded in 1974, further encouraging study of classic mysteries as well as providing a venue for its members to play various whodunit games.

13 Parlaying this material into an arty whodunit cheapens the real history invoked.

14 “The mystery’s gone,” she says, with more on her mind, it seems, than the whodunit at hand.

15 It failed to spark conversation online as vivid and impassioned as whodunits, real and fictional, have tended to of late.

16 And the show actually keeps you guessing whodunit, right up to the near end.

17 So it's not light reading to undertake instead of a TV whodunit after a heavy dinner and a long day at the office.

18 As a reader, you certainly want to learn whodunit.

19 Courage is not peeking at the last pages of your whodunit book to find out who did it.

勇气，是看侦探小说时，不先翻到后面几页，偷看一下凶手是谁。

20 The convolutions involved in this combo of whodunit and "who is it," while interesting, carry far less weight than the more substantial show crouching behind all the excitement.

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