Crime fiction and detective stories
Movies, books & the arts · C1 · 16 words
About this vocabulary deck
Sixteen C1 words for reading and discussing crime novels, from whodunnit and sleuth to red herring, alibi and cold case.
- Level
- C1
- Topic
- Movies, books & the arts
- Theme
- Free time & culture
- Words
- 16 words with meanings and examples
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First words in the deck
- whodunnit — a story about a murder in which the reader tries to guess who committed the crime
- sleuth — a detective, especially an amateur one in a story
- red herring — a false clue that leads readers or investigators in the wrong direction