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(literature, film) 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.
Use howdunit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Howdunit means (literature, film) 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..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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