whydunit
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A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the…A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.
Meaning
1 sensesA type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.
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