Word: whodunitism
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...already had too many garbled and conflicting versions of whodunit and "hedunit" and "I ain't guilty but them other hoods are." Littering the literature may not be a criminal offense, but it's disgusting, messy and stinks. Let's put the empties in the garbage can and fasten the cover-tight...
Sleuth adds a new dimension to the murder mystery genre, but if you'd prefer a classic whodunit, we recommend Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, playing at the Currier House Fishbowl on March 15,16,17 and 22,23,24. The production promises to be a little campy and more than a little chilling. Tickets available at Holyoke Center or at the door...
...episode does have all the marks of a grade-Z whodunit, complete with an anonymous woman caller, a mysterious motel room in Scranton, Pa., purloined pages and sotto voce allegations of bad faith and perhaps even criminality. What is known is that Post Reporter Nancy Collins penetrated perhaps the most elaborate security precautions ever thrown around the birth of a book, and that her coup touched off a divisive row in the publishing community that some newsmen quickly dubbed "Scrantongate...
...Whodunit? The FBI and bank officials could only assume it was an inside job. First, the thief had to get by several sets of guards (who log all comings and goings in the vault area) as well as TV monitors over the entrance. Then he presumably had to have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere...
...With such great responsibilities one could easily become very tense," says Witteveen, whose eclectic reading list covers the Bible, the Koran and the Inspector Maigret whodunit novels. But most of all he finds inner peace in meditation, "turning away from all that happened during the day." Witteveen's parents were both members of the Sufi movement. "I grew up with it. I began to study, and was very much touched and convinced. This is a deep and wide philosophy of life. An important part of it is mysticism." Appropriately among the ten articles of faith professed by a Sufi...