Meaning of whodunwhat | Babel Free

Definitions

A whodunit in which the nature of the crime is a mystery, as well as the identity of the perpetrator.

Examples

“In Sleuth Anthony Shaffer created the whodunwhat, where not only the identity of the criminal but the nature of the crime — indeed, the reality and reliability of everything we've seen with our own⟳ eyes — is part of the mystery.”

“Our narrator reads, rereads, and slowly realizes that ulterior "plots" are afoot; a whodunit develops into several whodunwhats; a murder⟳ may or may not have⟳ happened, or is yet to happen⟳.”

“"It's not a whodunit — it's a whodunwhat," says Cris Barrish, a local reporter. And few foresaw that Capano's brothers Louis, 47, and Gerard, 36, squeezed by prosecutors and threatened with jail time, would turn⟳ on Capano in court […]”

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