Howdunit vs Whodunit - What's the difference?
howdunit | whodunit |
A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
:* 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.
A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator.
* 1946 , Josephina Niggli. Pointers on radio writing (Boston: The Writer, Inc.) page 25
Whodunit is a related term of howdunit.
Whodunit is a anagram of howdunit.
As nouns the difference between howdunit and whodunit
is that howdunit is a type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so while whodunit is a novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator.howdunit
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(en noun)- 1969 , Ellery Queen: In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook , p 72 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZnBSWLVZ29QC&pg=PA72&dq=whodunit+howdunit+whydunit]:
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*whodunit
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(wikipedia whodunit)Alternative forms
* whodunnitNoun
(en noun)- Actually, an whodunit is a mystery story. The hero is generally a detective, although sometimes he is a gentleman (apparently a mild mannered worm) who sallies forth at night to become Public Enemy No. One of Crime. Otherwise the formula is exactly the same as that of the Cliff-hanger and follows the same rules.