"whodunnit" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

Forms: whodunnits [plural], whodunit
  1. Histoire basée sur une énigme (un crime, généralement un meurtre) dont la trame consiste à la résoudre (généralement un détective à la recherche d’indice).
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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