The comfort of the murder mystery

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How many ways are there to ask “whodunit?” As far as Hollywood is concerned, the question cannot be asked often enough.

In recent years, producers and studio bosses have found unexpected box-office riches in the seemingly antiquated genre of the whodunit, that instantly recognizable variation of the murder mystery in which clues, hints, and bits of evidence about a crime coalesce into a pleasingly complete resolution.

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