There is word on that, and it's not good. The real murderer in "Whodunnit's" story has turned out to be ABC.

The series, which creator Anthony Zuiker called "reality fiction," set up an elaborate, Agatha Christie-style murder-in-a-mansion scenario, and then recruited a bunch of contestants to play it out as they, and the audience, tried to figure out who among them was the killer. (I would say it's a bit like a live-action version of the board game Clue, but they already made a movie like that -- 1985's "Clue," starring Tim Curry -- so that gets confusing.)

Anyway, it was allowed to play out its full season last summer, but then not another word was spoken about it. If this was an actual murder, instead of a TV-show cancelation, one might say there was a coverup at work.

Instead, there's just the usual TV business at work. Networks often don't make cancelation announcements -- if a show is allowed to air its season finale before being canceled, it frequently just disappears afterward.

It's too bad in this case because ABC and Zuiker put a lot of work into developing the show and its mythology. Zuiker (best known for creating the fictional mystery-show hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") even went so far as to write two novels that provided back story on the reality show's fictional butler, Giles. They're still available as e-books on Amazon.com.

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