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Word: whoduniteer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...have made a pretty effective set piece at some ecclesiastical auto-da-fé. Now, poor devil, he's going to be a popular success, just another of that long line of scientific bestsellers cashing in on the current obsession: Who am I? How did I get here? Whodunit? Where do we go from here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...again by living people. What alone cheers them is that there is to be a wedding in the house, for now, after 87 years, a pair of dead lovers can be married, too. The weddings are interrupted by murder, which turns the second half of the evening into a whodunit. The whole evening is tethered to a gag which makes ghosts visible only to virgins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Bien . . . Adapted by Whodunit Editor Marcel Duhamel, Pas d'Orchidées pour Miss Blandish was as different from the old Grand Guignol classics as a Tommy gun is from a thumbscrew. Amid knifings and kneeings, kidnaping and murder, the meaty blonde Miss Blandish (Nicole Riche) spent most of two hours in panties and bra, successfully pursued by drooling Gangster Slim Grisson (Jean-Marc Tennberg). A moving touch for Grand Guignol fans: Old Ma Grisson, the boss of the gang, beats Miss Blandish into submission with a rubber hose so that Slim won't be annoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Paris Writhes Again | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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