Word: whodunitism
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MEDICINE White House whodunit: plumbing the puzzles of autoimmunity...
...faithful re-creation of the 19th century British novel -- lots of them, including Bleak House, Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. Miraculously, this bald-faced imitation works wonders. The author makes the distant world of Victorian fiction, with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness, as gripping as tomorrow's whodunit...
MOTHER LOVE (PBS, debuting Oct. 25, 9 p.m. on most stations). Diana Rigg, classy host of PBS's Mystery! series, gets into the whodunit herself this time, playing a scheming woman who adores her son (James Wilby) as much as she hates his father (David McCallum...
Classic British mysteries generally fit into one of three categories: the puzzle, or whodunit; the psychological study, or whydunit; and the comic jape. Robert Barnard and Reginald Hill have each written deft examples of all three. In their newest and most ambitious works, they adroitly fuse the subgenres together to paint rich, if characteristically jaundiced, social panoramas of decaying industrial towns. Both offer the teasing pleasures of suspense, sly misdirection and a breakneck climax as police seek to avert bloody murder. $ Both feature a gallery of vivid characters. And both take on themes ostensibly belonging to serious literature...
Sure he does. Shorty will turn up any moment now. In the meantime, as in all his novels, Leonard has introduced us to a few friends. Whodunit is not the issue, because almost everyone in the book is indictable for some villainy. The question is how much trouble the hero, a semiadmirable Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer, will bring down on his head by his squabble with a syndicate wide-body named Bones. A lot, is the answer. Bones walked off with Chili's leather jacket, and Chili, quite reasonably, punched Bones out and shot a crease...