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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
You may not have watched a lot of Columbo; but the show (and others in the "NBC Mystery Movie" set) often presented the crime, and the killer, at the beginning. Everybody knows whodunit. Then we watch the detective trying to put the pieces together right under the nose of the killer.
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Sorry - I didn't express that very well; I meant "the detective finding out who the killer was". Yes, that's the whole point of the inverted detective story - that the reader knows "whodunit" right from the start, and we watch the detective piece the clues together. The format was invented by R. Austin Freeman - one of my favourite authors.