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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie [syn: mystery, mystery story, whodunit]

Merriam Webster's

also whodunnit noun Etymology: alteration of who done it? Date: 1930 a detective story or mystery story

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also whodunnit) colloq. a story or play about the detection of a crime etc., esp. murder. Etymology: = who done (illiterate for did) it?

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see whodunnit

Moby Thesaurus

Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, detective story, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, horse opera, legend, love story, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, suspense story, thriller, work of fiction