For Mystery Questions ~ Riddles Take 4, since everyone seems to enjoy the riddles, I’ve found several more. It should amuse you that it took me a bit to figure them out. 😉 The photo is another one I took on an afternoon walk. We’d gotten a late start and the sun was just dropping behind the tree line. The clouds were such a pretty gold.
Oh, and the link I gave last week to the video interview didn’t work…so I’m posting it again here, just in case you want to hear a little of my writing history. Click here.
Now onto last weeks riddles:
1. THE BUILDING MYSTERY
A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors.
A detective comes, goes to the first floor, and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor.
He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor. Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide.
How does he know that? I think everyone got this one — If he had to open the window, there was no way the death could have been a suicide. As for flipping the coin…I don’t really know why he did that.
2. MYSTERY QUESTION, RIDDLES, 3: THE FUNERAL MYSTERY ~ I ACTUALLY USED THIS ONE IN ONE OF MY BOOKS. 
A narcissistic girl, at the funeral of her mother, met a guy whom she did not know. The girl fell for the guy and wanted to contact him. She looks for him but can’t find him, and then a few days later she kills her sister. Why did she do that?
Most also got this one correct. The key is the girl was a narcissist and thinks of no one but herself. She thinks if she kills her sister the man will come to the funeral and she will see him again.
3. MYSTERY QUESTION, RIDDLES, 3: THE RECORDER MYSTERY
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. He said “I have nothing else to live for. I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot. After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide. How did they know?
And everyone got this one as well…If it were a suicide who rewound the tape?
Now for this week’s Mystery Questions ~ Riddles, Take 4
- A man was shot to death in his car. There are no powder marks on his clothing, indicating that the killer was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors locked, and after a close inspection, the only bullet hole discovered was on the victim’s body.
How was he murdered
2. Peter is put in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window. The window is too high for him to reach. The only thing he has in the cell is a shovel. He won’t be able to get any food or water and only has two days to escape or he’ll die. Peter can’t dig a tunnel because it will take him much longer than two days to do it.
How will he escape from the cell?
3. A railroad tycoon is found murdered on a Sunday morning. As a result, his wife calls the police, who question the wife and the servants. The police collect the following alibis: the wife was in bed, the butler was polishing the silverware, the gardener was trimming trees, the maid was getting the mail, and the cook was preparing breakfast. The police arrest the murderer on the spot.
Who did it, and how did the police know?
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#1: The door was open and the killer shot the victim, then shut and locked the door after him?
#2: Unless he was put in through a window, there would also have been a door. So use the shovel to break the lock on the door? Or, smash the window and somehow hook the shovel on the window frame to pull himself up.
#3: Once again, I think this kinda depends on the region and era and household. Some houses would have a maid who does the silverware, not the butler, some would give the gardener Sunday morning off, etc. But I want to say it was the maid, because most places don’t deliver actual mail on a Sunday, as far as I know.
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Innovative answers, Monique. We’ll see next week…thanks for always stopping by!
#1. The man was killed somewhere else and then put in the car. There was no whole in the window and no marks in the car.
#2. He could shovel a mound of dirt to reach the window , brake the window with the shovel and climb out.
#3. The maid. She wasn’t getting mail because it was Sunday and no delivery.
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Hi Joyce! Glad to ‘see’ you here this morning. We’ll see if those are the correct answers next week. 🙂
The killer closed the windows and locked the doors after the shooting. Use the shovel to dig up dirt and create a pile high enough for him to stand on and reach the window. Maid, assuming that it takes place in a country that does not have Sunday mail delivery.
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Good answers Laurie! We’ll see next week if they are correct. 😉 Thanks for stopping by my blog!
1. The killer shot him from the outside through an open window. He/she could have even placed the body in the car after he/she killed him. He/she rolled up the window(s), and locked the door from the outside. He/she didn’t even need the key.
2. Pete digs a hole, and places the excavated dirt under the window. When the dirt pile is high enough, he escapes through the window a very hungry and thirsty man.
3. The maid did it. There is no mail delivery on Sunday. In all fairness to the maid, however, my mail is delivered in the afternoon, and my mailbox is at the end of my block. In the hot Tucson summers, I frequently wait until Sunday morning to get Saturday’s mail.
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All good answers, Tim. We’ll see next week if those are the answers. Always good to ‘see’ you here.
1) The killer shot the victim through the open door and then locked up the car. 2) Peter digs to make a pile of dirt high enough to reach the window and escapes through the window. 3) The maid did it because there is no mail delivery on Sunday.
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Good answers, Diana! We’ll see next week if those are the answers. Thanks for stopping by.
#1- the victim had opened his car door for some reason, and the murderer shot him & then locked & shut the door? #2-Peter has to dig a hole, but stack up the dirt until he can reach the window; #3 The maid; there’s no mail service on Sundays
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We’ll see, MS Barb! So glad you stopped by this morning!
The killer shot the man and then closed and locked the doors and made sure the windows were up.
He dug under the bars and crawled out.
The maid because there is usually no mail delivered on Sunday.
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We’ll see, Paula! Always good to ‘see’ you here!!
1. He was killed with the door open, then killer closed and locked the doors or locked/closed doors. Windows were up.
2. Door was not locked or he used the shovel to pull himself up to the window. Not sure.
3. Maid was the killer because the mail is not delivered on Sunday.
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Good answers, Gloria…we’ll see next week! Blessings!
1. The killer closed the windows and locked the doors after the fact.
2. Make a pile of dirt and escape through the window.
3. The maid, because no mail on Sundays.
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Hi Linda! So far no one has gotten the correct answer to #1…although the answers are possible, but not the one I’m looking for. 😉
#1 is hard but I think the murderer shot victim thru an open door and then shut and locked doors. #2 he used shovel to heap up dirt high enuf to crawl out window. #3 No mail delivery on Sundays so nab the maid.
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Good answers, Delores…we’ll see next week if everyone is overcomplicating #1…always good to ‘see’ you here!
These are tough! #1 the killer must have either opened the car door to shoot him or maybe the window was rolled down? Either way the killer closed it up after he’d killed him.
#2 He either uses the shovel to somehow get through the window, or he hits his captors over the head whenever they come through the door.
#3 this one seems easy. The maid did it. She couldn’t have been getting the mail on a Sunday.
Thanks for sharing!
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I’m so glad I finally got a few harder riddles, Megan! We’ll see how your answers stack up next Tuesday!
I enjoyed your interview. I also like the picture. It seems I’m always in the car headed somewhere when I see the sunset or sunrise, and haven’t allowed enough time to stop and smell the flowers, or I should say “stop and take the pictures.”
I’m going to have to guess at these riddles. For 1, I would say the victim was shot outside the car, then placed in the car. The murderer then locked the car. Number 2, nothing is said about the door, so I am guessing he has time to dig under the door and make his getaway, taking the shovel to use as a weapon if needed. For 3, I have to go with the maid since there should be no mail to collect on a Sunday morning. I also suspect there is something obvious in the other two that I may have missed. LOL!
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Edward, so far everyone has missed #1. 🙂 We’ll see the answers next week. I hope you’ll take time to stop and take a few pictures.
1. Victim shot through open window, which the killer rolled up afterwards.
2. Peter faked an illness. Knocked out guard when he came to check on him.
3. Wife had to have gotten out of bed to call police.
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I like your answers, Caryl! We’ll see next Tuesday if they’re correct. Thanks for stopping by.
#1 I have to agree with the majority, he was shot outside the car, put into the car and the killer locked & closed the door. My question, if that was the case, wouldn’t there be blood near the victim (on or near the car, on the ground or?). I know it doesn’t mention that part.
#2. I also agree with the theory that Peter could have dug enough dirt to make a pile to climb on and break the window to escape, or Edward is onto to a good one too where Peter could have dug under the door 🙂
#3. The maid is the guilty one. But it could also be that she didn’t check the mail on Saturday and was getting for that day…but I think logically it would have been her.
I guess we’ll find out next week as usual if we are all right or not! 🙂 These have been lots of fun to use our logical “little gray cells”…LOL! Another Poirot saying 🙂
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So glad to make you use those “little gray cells” Trixi! I like your logic and we’ll see Tuesday how well it works. lol I will tell you this–no one has guessed the correct answer to the first one…thanks for stopping by!
Okay, Pat. Since no one has gotten #1 correctly, I asked my husband Joe what he thought and he said that the car is a convertible.
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Hi Gloria! You’re one smart cookie to ask your husband. lol. I’m not admitting anything but I will say he didn’t make it over complicated. lol
Thanks for stopping by!
Okie dokie.