more two minute mysteries
Yes, whoever the anon poster was from the last minute mystery is relatively correct, if a tad vague!
the answer to what was wrong with Cyril's story is thusly: "in the artic circle on Christmas Eve Cyril could not have started a fire by using the sun's rays. As every schoolboy knows (or should), the sun disappears in the far north from October to about March."
and there you have it friends.
and here for you gumshoe pleasure is another titled "the case of The Department Store Murder"
Dr. Haledjian was walking past the lingerie counters on the ground floor of a crowded department store when he was nearly gored by a bull.
"Sorry," apologized the slim young man in shirtsleeves. He bowed and proceeded on his way, agilely steering a papier-mache bull's head through the mobs of shoppers.
Behind him trailed two hefty girls ladened with the bull's hind quearters. They were followed by a procession of slender men: two brunets bearing matador costumes, a red head carrying several black petticoats, and four blonds each lugging a bare manikin upside down.
Haledjian observed the parade of window dressers file into a roped-off area by the back of the display window. He thought nothing of them until an hour later, when he saw a crowd and several policemen collected by the window.
"Somebody murdered Joe Johnson, a store exectutive as he sat at his desk," said Inspector Winters. "The only possible angle of fire leads back to this display window.
"The killer," added the inspector, "undoubtedly used a silencer. But what baffles me is why nobody saw him pull the gun."
"Perhaps I can help," said Haledjian, stepping outside to study the newly decorated window, which was designed to sell toreador pants at $39.98.
The four manikins, attired as matadors, stood around the papier-mache bull. The background consisted of a screen painted to resemble a stadium filled with spectators.
"I believe I can recall the face of the murderer," Haledjian told the inspector. "Shall we go to your office and look through the albums?"
Whom did Haledjian suspect?
the answer to what was wrong with Cyril's story is thusly: "in the artic circle on Christmas Eve Cyril could not have started a fire by using the sun's rays. As every schoolboy knows (or should), the sun disappears in the far north from October to about March."
and there you have it friends.
and here for you gumshoe pleasure is another titled "the case of The Department Store Murder"
Dr. Haledjian was walking past the lingerie counters on the ground floor of a crowded department store when he was nearly gored by a bull.
"Sorry," apologized the slim young man in shirtsleeves. He bowed and proceeded on his way, agilely steering a papier-mache bull's head through the mobs of shoppers.
Behind him trailed two hefty girls ladened with the bull's hind quearters. They were followed by a procession of slender men: two brunets bearing matador costumes, a red head carrying several black petticoats, and four blonds each lugging a bare manikin upside down.
Haledjian observed the parade of window dressers file into a roped-off area by the back of the display window. He thought nothing of them until an hour later, when he saw a crowd and several policemen collected by the window.
"Somebody murdered Joe Johnson, a store exectutive as he sat at his desk," said Inspector Winters. "The only possible angle of fire leads back to this display window.
"The killer," added the inspector, "undoubtedly used a silencer. But what baffles me is why nobody saw him pull the gun."
"Perhaps I can help," said Haledjian, stepping outside to study the newly decorated window, which was designed to sell toreador pants at $39.98.
The four manikins, attired as matadors, stood around the papier-mache bull. The background consisted of a screen painted to resemble a stadium filled with spectators.
"I believe I can recall the face of the murderer," Haledjian told the inspector. "Shall we go to your office and look through the albums?"
Whom did Haledjian suspect?