perlmangle
Something\'s missing
Since: May, 2010
Something\'s missing
Jul 10th 2010 at 7:38:10 AM
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Forehead slap moment: this should be called Howdunnit.
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Vilui
Since: May, 2009
May 28th 2013 at 6:26:47 AM
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(I know, I'm replying three years after the comment, but...) The name "Howdunnit" is already taken: it means a traditional (non-reverse) Whodunnit in which, although the villain's identity will be revealed at the end, the main Driving Question is how it was done: usually an "impossible" crime or Locked Room Mystery.
Would it qualify if the characters know from the start who did it, but has no evidence and has to gather some?
(Example: a Living Lie Detector who figures in the first five second who has done it by seeing through the lies like we see through a window, and is attempting to find actual evidence since his powers don't count as such.)