Word: whodunitism
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...Long Memory is a "suspense" story, one of that rapidly growing species that doesn't care to be seen on the same shelf with a common whodunit but can't quite qualify as serious fiction. What lifts English Novelist Howard Clewes a few cuts above his fellow practitioners is a kit of writer's tools that many a more important novelist would be glad to borrow from. His writing is clean as a whistle, economical without being starved for words. He can get suspense without straining for it, because it is less the product of plot mechanics...
...Whodunit? The whole story gave Washington the political shakes. Harry Truman virtually called Krock a liar. Said Truman: "There's not a word of truth in it-that's my only comment." Snapped a spokesman at Ike's headquarters: "purely fictional." Krock stuck by his guns and identified his source as an "eminent Northern Democrat" who is "thoroughly reliable and informed...
...theory has always been that there is no way to prove that the climate really changed. Last week the University of Chicago's Dr. Harold Urey told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science how he hopes to solve the ancient whodunit...
...Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...
...Secret of Mayerling (Commercial Pictures) is another French retelling of the famed historical whodunit posed by the violent death of Habsburg Crown Prince Rudolph and his young mistress, and still another version of what really happened to them in the royal hunting lodge near Vienna on the night...