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Перевод: whodunit

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1. And there, in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit, Hammett gives his readers their clue, full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic, cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body.
2. But Izzard became convinced that there was a mystery, and she has written her book not as a chronological narrative of Stark's life, but in the manner of A J A Symons's great Quest for Corvo , in which the reader is presented with the biographer's discoveries in the order in which they are made, as if it were a whodunit.
3. Since the trial is unrehearsed, it requires a high standard of forensic ability on the part of the student "counsel"; and the proceedings should either be leavened by humour or present an intellectual problem of the "whodunit" type.
4. It can be a considerable pleasure to the writer engaged in creating the now often somewhat despised simple whodunit.
5. A tip, incidentally, that reminds us that the whodunit is by no means only a puzzle for the reader to solve before the author lets out the answer, but also and always a story.
6. On the floor there were three whodunit paperbacks and a copy of The Village Voice with face-powder spilled on it.
7. Unfortunately, it soon degenerates into an unconvincing whodunit.
8. You can prove this for yourself, in fact, by re-reading any good whodunit where you can remember who the murder eventually proved to be.
9. The speculation extends from the obvious (the "whodunit?") to the more searching (the "why did he-or-she dunit?").
10. Women are less likely to examine data, whereas analysing somebody else's balance sheet and profit and loss account is better than a good whodunit as far as top businessmen are concerned.
11. He garbage-dispersed the whodunit concepts because it was always this monster woman behind the scheme to remainder the hero.
12. The whodunit tug is, of course, replaced by the where-did-he-go-wrong tug.