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- A detective story or mystery story. Merriam-Webster
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- A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. - Alyssa Mackay by
- Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? - Telegraph by
- 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 by
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- Romanzo, racconto, dramma o film poliziesco, fondato sul mistero e sull’imprevisto. Devoto-Oli - by Nicoletta Aresca
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- L’assenza, le cose non dette che non sono necessariamente neanche dietro il non detto, sono molto importanti per Agatha Christie. In confronto, la prosa di Margery Allingham e Dorothy Sayers, altre due autrici di gialli della stessa generazione, è molto più articolata e complessa, al punto, però, che rischia di risultare antiquata e artificiale. - Internazionale.it by Nicoletta Aresca
- La suspense è un elemento fondamentale del genere giallo, horror, thriller e parte da molto lontano, da scrittori come Poe, Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle ma anche da scrittori non di genere come Oscar Wilde con il suo “Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray”. - Scritturacreativa.org by Nicoletta Aresca
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- kriminalistička književnost - žanr prozne književnosti u čijim je djelima (romani, pripovijetke, novele) u središtu pripovjedačkog i čitateljskog zanimanja neka kriminalna radnja ili zločin te njegovo postupno napeto otkrivanje ili rasvjetljavanje, najčešće s osloncem na psihološke ili društvene uzroke. Glavni akter uglavnom je detektiv ili istražitalj (na primjer forenzičar) koji razrješava kriminalni događaj. Mnogobrojna ostvarenja kriminalističke književnosti, takozvani krimići, nastaju po shematskom uzorku i bez većih književnih ambicija te se kao takvi smještaju u širi korpus zabavne ili trivijalne književnosti. Proleksis - by Elio Verbanac
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- Sintagma „hrvatski krimić“ nije oksimoron. Ona ne zvuči apsurdno, fantastično ili neprirodno poput značenjske sprege između riječi u izrazima kao što bi bili, recimo, hrvatski western ili hrvatski humor, a donedavno i hrvatski film. - ARTOS by Elio Verbanac
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- Een whodunit of whodunnit (ontstaan uit het Engelse "Who has done it?") is een subgenre van detectiveverhalen, waarin de nadruk geheel ligt op het proberen te achterhalen wie de dader is van een moord of ander misdrijf. Wikipedia - by Thomas Veron [EI]
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- Bij het schrijven van haar whodunit Moord op de moestuin liet Nicolien Mizee zich inspireren door Agatha Christie. - VPRO by Thomas Veron [EI]
- Hij kwam er al snel achter dat het mysterie van Paaseiland een soort detective is, een wetenschappelijke whodunit. - De Correspondent by Thomas Veron [EI]
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