English Dictionary

whydunit

名詞

A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it.

日本語の意味

犯人が誰であるかではなく、その動機に焦点を当てた探偵小説の一種

After finishing the last mystery, he reached for a whydunit, eager to understand why people commit crimes rather than who did them.

最後のミステリーを読み終えると、彼は犯行の動機に焦点を当てた探偵小説に手を伸ばした。犯人が誰かではなく、人々がなぜ犯罪を犯すのかを理解したかったのだ。

意味（1）

A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it.

Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit.

whydunits （ plural ）