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Howdunnit vs Howdunit - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between howdunnit and howdunit

is that howdunnit is an alternative spelling of howdunit while howdunit is a type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.

howdunnit

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    howdunit

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  • A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
    • 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]:
  • :* 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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    * whodunit * whydunit

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