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whodunit
A whodunit or whodunnit (for "Who () done it?" or "Who did it?") is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a crime. The reader or viewer is provided with the clues from which the identity of the perpetrator may be deduced before the story provides the revelation itself at its climax. The investigation is usually conducted by an eccentric, amateur, or semi-professional detective.
==Etymology==
Journalist Wolfe Kaufman claims that he coined the word "whodunit" around 1935 while working for ''Variety'' magazine. However, an editor of the magazine, Abel Green, attributed it to his predecessor, Sime Silverman. The earliest appearance of the word "whodunit" in ''Variety'' occurs in the edition of August 28, 1934, in reference to a film adaptation of the play ''Recipe for Murder,'' as featured in the headline, "U's Whodunit: Universal is shooting 'Recipe for Murder,' Arnold Ridley's play". The film was eventually titled ''Blind Justice''.
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