howdunit

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Definition of howdunit

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noun

A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the manner in which it was committed.

“After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.”

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