whodunits in English

noun
1
a story or play about a murder in which the identity of the murderer is not revealed until the end.

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1. Butlers figure so prominently in period pieces and whodunits that they can be considered stock characters in film and theatre, where a catchphrase is "The butler did it!" The best-known fictional manservant, and the archetype of the quintessential British butler, is himself not a butler at all.