Word: whodunitism
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...destitute writer who becomes Pope, the books of Frederick Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, are little read. But his life as self-styled genius and unrepentant poseur continues to tantalize. In the 1930s, two decades after Rolfe's death, A.J.A. Symons made him the subject of a celebrated literary whodunit. The Quest for Corvo. In 1971, Donald Weeks wrote a more conventional biography, Corvo. Miriam Benkovitz, an English professor at Skidmore College, offers a new and exhaustive study. Her style is academic and sometimes awkward, but the Baron radiates through it with a satanic intensity...
...mystery involved is fairly simple. Man on the Roof is not a whodunit in the traditional sense. True, the identity of the murderer, who late in the film takes to the rooftops and opens fire on policemen with deadly accuracy, is not known at the outset, but the question of who he is is nowhere near as important as those of what he is and why he is there, elements absent from most conventional mysteries. If you like to pick up cleverly strewn clues and try to beat the heroes to the inevitable punch, you'll be disappointed, for Widerberg...
...Sunday Woman is a double-barreled puzzle, about which one does not know whodunit and one does not care either. The movie, steadfastly hare brained, has an unreasonably attractive cast: Jacqueline Bisset, elegant and wry as a bored member of Turin high society; Jean-Louis Trintignant, absorbed and enigmatic all the way through the part of a bisexual aristocrat. Mastroianni continues to be as relaxed as a sleep walker, as unruffled as a cat on the prowl. His shrugs are funnier than the dialogue he is given, and he employs them defensively, to good effect...
This musical whodunit provides an evening of innocently dotty merriment...
...possesses an unpretentious village wisdom and homey psychological insight that make her Agatha Christie's alter ego. Although Poirot is gone, Marple survives for at least a while longer An unpublished manuscript in which she too passes on is locked in the Christie vault, along with the ultimate whodunit, Dame Agatha's autobiography By refusing to publish it during her lifetime, Dame Agatha has assured herself one last, suspenseful hurrah...