whodunit

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00:54 Oct 12, 2020
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English term or phrase: whodunit
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

Example sentence(s):
  • 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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5cerita detektif
Salsabila Aisyi Rasikhah (X)
5kisah misteri
Tanti Susilawati


  

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cerita detektif


Definition from Cambridge Dictionary:
whodunit merupakan jenis cerita detektif dengan plot kompleks yang mengarahkan pada penemuan pelaku kejahatan; 'whodunit' berasal dari 'who [has] done it?'

Example sentence(s):
  • It's one of those whodunits where you don't find out who the murderer is till the very end. - Cambridge Dictionary  
Salsabila Aisyi Rasikhah (X)
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kisah misteri


Definition from KBBI:
Kisah: cerita tentang kejadian (riwayat dan sebagainya) dalam kehidupan seseorang dan sebagainya; kejadian (riwayat dan sebagainya)

Misteri: sesuatu yang masih belum jelas (masih menjadi teka-teki; masih belum terbuka rahasianya):

Example sentence(s):
  • Agatha Christie dikenal sebagai Ratu Kriminal. Ia juga dianggap master cerita fiksi detektif. Otaknya seperti dipenuhi kisah misteri nan rumit. - CNN Indonesia  
Tanti Susilawati
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