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The Whodunit Detective Agency [1] (also known as JerryMaya's Detective Agency, Swedish: LasseMajas detektivbyrå – "LasseMaja's Detective Agency") is a Swedish children's book series written by Martin Widmark and illustrated by Helena Willis. In the English translation, it is called "The JerryMaya detective agency".
A whodunit follows the paradigm of the traditional detective story in the sense that it presents crime as a puzzle to be solved through a chain of questions that the detective poses. [2] In a whodunit, however, the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a ...
An inverted detective story, also known as a "howcatchem" and sometimes "howdunit", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described at the beginning, [1] usually including the identity of the perpetrator. [2] The story then describes the detective's attempt to solve the mystery. [1]
The Christian Science Monitor says Detective in Togas "neatly succeeds in constructing a lesson in ancient history around the plot of a whodunit and spinning the whole thing into a great tale for middle school readers". [5] A reviewer in Huntingdon Daily News says the book has a "fascinating setting", and is "full of suspense and excitement". [6]
The original film in Wes Craven’s iconic 1990s slasher franchise, Scream follows a high school girl, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), and her friends as a masked killer terrorizes their small ...
These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s). These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. They are often ...
Historical mystery; Locked-room mystery; Police procedural: mystery fiction that feature a protagonist who is a member of the police force. Well-known novelists in this genre include Ed McBain, P. D. James, and Bartholomew Gill. [6] Whodunit: mystery fiction that focuses on the puzzle regarding who committed the crime. Noir. Nordic noir; Tart Noir
The Arabian Nights Murder, first published in 1936, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit . Plot summary