Fall 2021
The Lee R. Glatfelter Library head an ongoing mystery contest during the Fall 2021 semester in which students collected cards at campus events for a have a chance to win daily and monthly prizes.
Fall 2021 WHODUNIT home page
JOIN US . . .
for the Lee R. Glatfelter Library’s version of Whodunit – an ongoing mystery contest! Collect cards at campus events to have a chance at daily and monthly prizes! Check this site and Instagram for other ways to get cards!
DAILY CONTEST
Today’s WHODUNIT winners!
Don’t forget to return your rented textbooks to the bookstore, in good condition, by the Rental Return Due Date! If you have the bookstore’s card, you’re a winner! Stop in the library for your prize!
MONTHLY CONTEST
Someone from Penn State York borrowed one of the library’s resources and left it somewhere on campus. You’ll find out WHO, WHAT, and WHERE at the end of each month and if you have that combination of Whodunit cards – you’re the lucky winner!
The mystery will be solved and the winning combination revealed in the library by a member of the University Police & Public Safety Department at the end of each month. Check out the video of the news briefing from October 29, 2021 when Lt. Lehman reveals WHO, WHAT, and WHERE.
October’s winning cards are shown below. If you have at least 2 of these 3 cards, you win a $25 Amazon gift card bookmark, which must be claimed by November 2, 2021. If the prize isn’t claimed by then, the next winner (to be announced at the end of November) wins $50 in Amazon gift cards!
OCTOBER WHODUNIT!
NOVEMBER WHODUNIT!
What’s a Whodunit?
The term WHODUNIT – as in “Who done it? – was first used in 1930 to describe a type of detective story in which the reader tries to solve a mystery based on clues presented gradually by the author. It takes a skilled author to build suspense by revealing just enough information to keep the reader guessing at every step. In the end, though, the author must provide all the clues a reader would need to solve the mystery, without necessarily revealing the importance of those clues throughout the story.
Oleksin, S. (2005). Whodunit. In R. Herbert (Ed.) The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing. Oxford University Press.