Word: whodunitism
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Exhibit No. 1 is The Detling Secret, a novel molded into the shape of the classic whodunit. The setting is England, the time the 1890s. Sir Arthur Detling is a crusty old Tory, holder of "one of the most ancient baronetcies in the land." Among the burdens Sir Arthur must bear is his older daughter Dolly's determination to marry Bernard Ross, a Liberal M.P. with a mysterious past: although born in England, he spent part of his childhood in the U.S. Sir Arthur disapproves of his new son-in-law and of Parliament, which he calls "the talking...
...Soldier's Play. Charles Fuller's drama of tensile strength about a World War II black outfit stationed in Louisiana that gets involved in a racial whodunit. The central character, brilliantly portrayed by Adolph Caesar, is a black Regular Army noncom who is as tough as bully beef...
...addition to concern over the Von Bulow case's constitutional questions about the role of private citizens on investigations. Dershowitz said loop the case because of its intellectual challenge. "The case is a great whodunit he added...
...Real Inspector Hound. Tom Stoppard has carefully avoided violating this unwritten but nevertheless universal truth. In the drawing room of Muldoon Manor (one fine morning in early spring) he arranges a collection of classic whodunit players. There is the lovely Lady Muldoon whose husband disappeared mysteriously over the cliffs 10 years ago, her bright young friend Felicity Cunningham; Simon Gascoyn, their dashing sometime lover who may be the madman police are searching for, a Muldoon half-brother confined to a wheel-chair and a creepy housekeeper named Mrs. Drudge who enters a room at all the wrong moments. A corpse...
...night, ABC-TV offered instead The Cheap Detective, a comedy film about a befuddled gumshoe. Not such an inappropriate choice, perhaps. Though there is nothing cheap about this conflict, a dogged investigator may indeed be needed to wade through the welter of plans, positions and proposals to figure out whodunit. Who is responsible for the strike and what exactly is the fight about...