Citations:wheredunit

Noun: "a type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on where the crime was committed"

 * 1990 — Digby Diehl, "Psyching Out a Killer", Los Angeles Times, 11 November 1990:
 * Taking us to Japan or New Mexico, mystery writers such as James Melville (the Inspector Otani series) and Tony Hillerman have pioneered the wheredunit.
 * 1995 — Edward Gorman, The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion, Galahad Books (1995), ISBN 9780883659106, page 113:
 * As to content, the traditional mystery is the whodunit; it's also the whydunit and wheredunit and, very often whowuzit and whosawat.
 * 2008 — Justin Chang, "The Chaser", Variety, 17 May 2008:
 * "The Chaser" is less whodunit than wheredunit, perversely withholding the location of Young-min's home from everyone but the viewer, who gets to know Seoul's Mangwon district quite intimately as Jung-ho, his bumbling sidekick Meathead (Koo Bon-woong) and other cops run around it in infuriating circles.
 * 2008 — Michael J. Bandler, "Books", Go, July 2008:
 * There are "whodunits," and then there are "wheredunits"-mysteries in which the setting itself is a character.
 * There are "whodunits," and then there are "wheredunits"-mysteries in which the setting itself is a character.