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00:55 Oct 12, 2020
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English term or phrase: whodunit
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

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  • A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. Alyssa Mackay
  • Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? Telegraph
  • While Agatha Christie is still the first to spring to mind when thinking of the ultimate ‘whodunit’ books, detectives, murderers and victims have changed a lot since then; the breadth of crime, thrillers, detective and psychological novels out there, keeping us on tenterhooks until the last few pages, is vast. WH Smith
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4悬疑故事
Chuan Xiao
4推理侦探故事
Carolyn Batay 蔡虹虹


  

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悬疑故事


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悬疑故事

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Chuan Xiao
Canada
Local time: 06:45
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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推理侦探故事


Definition from wikipedia:
推理小说是一种以推理方式解开故事谜题的小说,它们通常以侦探事件为主题(侦探小说),通常讲述主角以敏锐的观察和理性的分析解决事件。亦有部分以其他事件为主要剧情走向,如找寻失物或解开奇异事件的谜底等[1]。犯罪小说、神秘小说与推理小说有密切的关系。

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  • 推理小说可以是以下类型的子类型。但也有些许区别: 侦探小说(detective fiction):两者几乎相等。 神秘小说(mystery fiction):是推理小说的一个更松散的统称。岛田庄司认为推理小说的解答一定要合理,而神秘小说则不一定。推理小说评论家霍华德·海格拉夫(Howard Haycraft)对威尔基·柯林斯推理成分单薄的《白衣女人》表示不屑,称它为“一部神秘小说而不是侦探小说”。 犯罪小说(crime fiction):是推理小说的一个更松散的统称。R.奥斯汀·弗里曼(R. Austin Freeman)在《侦探小说的艺术》(The Art of the Detective Story)一文中认为,将侦探小说与“纯粹的犯罪小说”相提并论是一个极大的错误。霍华德·海格拉夫的《为了娱乐而杀人:侦探小说及其时代》(Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story)中说道:“侦探小说中的犯罪是为了达成目的所用的手段,这个目的就是——推理。” 恐怖小说(horror fiction)或惊悚小说(thriller fiction):推理小说常有恐怖元素,有些推理小说家的恐怖小说也会被归类成推理小说。 间谍小说 公案小说:中国古代的侦探故事。 - wikipedia  
Carolyn Batay 蔡虹虹
Philippines
Local time: 21:45
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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