Whodunit

A whodunit or whodunnit (for "Who done [did] it?") is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest. The reader or viewer is provided with clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime may be deduced before the solution is revealed in the final pages of the book. ...more

New Releases Tagged "Whodunit"

All of Us Murderers
Boom Town
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Murder on the Marlow Belle (Marlow Murder Club, #4)
The Secrets We Buried
Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
The Last Death of the Year (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #6)
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4)
Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)
Five Found Dead
The Murders at Fleat House
The Charity Shop Detective Agency (The Charity Shop Detective Agency #1)
Boom Town
Death in the Arctic
Are You Awake?
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Guest List
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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John Dickson Carr
But, if you're going to analyse impossible situations,' interrupted Pettis, 'why discuss detective fiction?' 'Because,' said the doctor, frankly, 'we're in a detective story, and we don't fool the reader by pretending we're not. Let's not invent elaborate excuses to drag in a discussion of detective stories. Let's candidly glory in the noblest pursuits possible to characters in a book. ...more
John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man

M.F. Kelleher
His body takes the impact of the young woman’s momentum and he groans as her weight lands against his stomach. They fall together, towards the table, she lands first and swivels to avoid Jean Luc’s hands as they reach out.
M.F. Kelleher, Olivia Streete and the Parisian Contract

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